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Intelligence Quotes
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
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"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
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"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
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"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
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"The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."
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"Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done."
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"We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA."
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"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
44
"It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality."
42
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
42
"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."
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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."
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"And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received."
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"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
35
"I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force."
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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
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"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
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"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."
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"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
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"There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results."
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"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
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"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
28
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
27
"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."
27
"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
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"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
26
"There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them."
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"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."
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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
26
"I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status."
26
"I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet."
25
"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."
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"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
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"If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution."
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"Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower."
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"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
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"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."
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"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
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"Action is the real measure of intelligence."
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
23
"It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious."
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"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
23
"I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page."
23
"Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company."
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"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."
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"The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves."
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