Intelligence Quotes

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.