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Intelligence Quotes
"Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence."
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"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
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"Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day."
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"I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars."
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"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is 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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
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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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"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
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"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own."
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
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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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"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 mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American."
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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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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"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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"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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"God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth."
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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 man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward."
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"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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"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."
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"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous."
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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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"The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security."
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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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"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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"In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise."
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"No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged."
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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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"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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"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore 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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"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
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"Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?"
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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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"Intelligence won wars, not brute force."
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"She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence."
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"Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody."
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