"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."

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"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."

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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."

Christine Baranski, American Actress

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"You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."

Jose Bergamin, Spanish Writer

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"I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair."

Bob Graham, American Politician

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"You want to keep intelligence separate from policy."

Bobby Ray Inman, American Soldier

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"In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential."

Gijs de Vries, Dutch Politician

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"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"

Mistake

"Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."

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"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

Ignorance

"The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."

Man

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

Organization

"Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret."

Humor

"Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them."

Problems

"If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else."

Direction

"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

Time

"Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

Beauty