Famous Quotes About intelligence

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.

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?'

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.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.