Intelligence Quotes

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No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability.… — George Carlin
That's the nature of the intelligence business. You have to work with what you can get your hands on, but it is.. and in fact… — Dick Cheney
One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with… — Dick Cheney
So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning. — Elizabeth Bowen
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we… — Heinrich Hertz
Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence. — Ron Greenwood
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it… — Garry Kasparov
The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence… — Alexey Brodovitch
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich… — Louis Agassiz
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty. A pig producer… — Peter Singer
Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties. — James Monroe
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser at the grandmaster level is the willingness to do the unthinkable. A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a… — Garry Kasparov
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising… — Russell Lynes
Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats… — Vladimir Putin
Genius creates, and taste preserves. — Alexander Pope
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. — William Hazlitt

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