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Intelligence Quotes
"No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged."
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"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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"Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company."
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"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so."
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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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"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
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"There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it."
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"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."
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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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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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"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."
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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 United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information."
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"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
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"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."
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"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."
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"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."
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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."
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"It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up."
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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"I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure."
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"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."
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"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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"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."
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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."
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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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"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."
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"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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"The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie."
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"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
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"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?'Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.'How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head.''I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me', said he."
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"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
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"Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey."
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"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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"The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure."
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"In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq."
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"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
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"They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons."
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"You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment."
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"In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship."
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"Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture."
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"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
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"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."
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