Intelligence Quotes

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.