Famous Quotes About intelligence

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

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.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.