Intelligence Quotes

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.