If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen SpecterAn intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence PeterPeople are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre MauroisI've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
Liz HurleyKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao TzuAdvertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Butler LeacockThe phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThere is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have
Don HeroldTruly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik TikkanenThe war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
Richard ArmitageA great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul BellowEverything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Dr Wayne DyerNo man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry AdamsChess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerDo you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John KeatsAs elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond ChandlerI don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Bill GatesA woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert Keith ChestertonWhat a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund FreudChess is a game of war and strategy, and a great chess player would make a great intelligence officer.
Bobby FischerI've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Abigail AdamsIf any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
Jane AustenThe intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl LevinThere is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in All. Spirit is immortal Truth; Matter is mortal error
Mary Baker EddyWhat I am is the new dream girl - one who has both body and intelligence
Sybil DanningOnly the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene WilsonJoy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
Helen KellerYou saw the report of the US intelligence. They said clearly that the Iranian people were on the just path.
Mahmoud AhmadinejadEvolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.
Richard BachLack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A NewhouseOur bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint AugustineProducing machines capable of artificial thought was easy. Producing a machine capable of intelligence has proven elusive because there just isn't anything on which to model it.
Judge CraterArtificial Intelligence isn't a patch on Natural Stupidity.
AnonymousI don't seem to use my intelligence intelligently.
Virginia Wade Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartMy darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness
Helen KellerLook, try and use your intelligence, man, even if you are a politician. [Day of the Daleks]
Doctor WhoTalent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael JordanBecause every punter has to register full identity details to open an account with exchanges, and sign a declaration allowing the authorities access to that account, it is more likely that we are today seeing the results of this extra source of intelligence. [on scandals in betting]
J A McGrathIt has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C ClarkeThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F Scott FitzgeraldYou can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin TofflerI'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with this intelligence and a million dollars
Michael CaineMan becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frederic AmielClear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas SzaszNo rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
Stephen Jay GouldMan is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.
Aldous HuxleyIn the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert HooverMilitary intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho MarxChildren are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
Aldous Huxley
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