Intelligence Quotes - Page 11

Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

Who are a little wise the best fools be.

I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

Intelligence is derived from two words

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

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

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

Mystery is not profoundness.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Any slower and he'd be in reverse.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.