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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."
58
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
54
"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
46
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
38
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
37
"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."
37
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
36
"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."
35
"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."
32
"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."
29
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
27
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
25
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
25
"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."
25
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
25
"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."
23
"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."
23
"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."
22
"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."
22
"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."
20
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
19
"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."
19
"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."
19
"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
18
"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."
18
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
18
"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."
18
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
18
"Use that fluff of yours you call a brain."
18
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
17
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
17
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
17
"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."
17
"I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
16
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
16
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
16
"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
16
"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."
16
"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
16
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
15
"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."
15
"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."
15
"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."
15
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
14
"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
14
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
14
"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
14
"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
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