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Intelligence Quotes
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
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"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
33
"In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity."
30
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
23
"Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."
21
"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."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
10
"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."
10
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
8
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."
8
"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
8
"When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results."
8
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
8
"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."
7
"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."
6
"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."
6
"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."
6
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
5
"Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations."
5
"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
5
"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."
5
"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."
4
"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."
4
"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
4
"A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God."
4
"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."
4
"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
4
"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."
4
"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."
3
"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."
3
"Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools."
3
"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."
3
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
3
"It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming."
3
"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."
3
"By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate."
3
"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."
3
"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
2
"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."
2
"This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq."
2
"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."
2
"God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body."
2
"Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence."
2
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
2
"As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul."
2
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
2
"I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong."
2
"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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