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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."
49
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
40
"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."
31
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
30
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
30
"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."
22
"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."
21
"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."
20
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
17
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
16
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
16
"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."
16
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
15
"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."
14
"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."
14
"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."
13
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
13
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
12
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
12
"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."
12
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
12
"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."
12
"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."
11
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
11
"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
11
"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."
11
"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
10
"Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations."
10
"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."
10
"A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence."
9
"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."
8
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
8
"What did you do, memorize a map of the city for fun? says Christina."Yes, says Will, looking puzzled. "Didn't you?"
8
"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."
8
"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;And to do that well craves a kind of wit:He must observe their mood on whom he jests,The quality of persons, and the time,And, like the haggard, check at every featherThat comes before his eye. This is a practiseAs full of labour as a wise man's artFor folly that he wisely shows is fit;But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
7
"I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest."
7
"Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy."
7
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
7
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
7
"We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."
7
"Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get."
7
"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
7
"The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'"
7
"The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything."
7
"My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred."
7
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."
7
"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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