Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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Intelligence is not a science.
— Frank Carlucci
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And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of…
— Frank Carlucci
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Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
— Frank Carlucci
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us.…
— Huston Smith
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that…
— Alfred Jarry
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I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
— Erykah Badu
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And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries,…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.
— Barney Frank
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The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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For myself, faith begins with a realization that a supreme intelligence brought the universe into being and created man. It is not difficult for me…
— Arthur Compton
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Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the…
— Warren Buffett
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Nerd. Geek. Used to be if you self-identified that way, you'd get thrown into a locker and never have sex. Or worse, whatever that is.…
— Olivia Munn
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I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt…
— Peter F. Hamilton
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Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how…
— Jim Ryun
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The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information -…
— Robert Greene
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The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it…
— William H. Gass
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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
— E. M. Forster
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He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
— Rumi
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