Quotes about Intelligence

“If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.”

“Intelligence is a moral category.”

“We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.”

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

“I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.”

“I was a part of the planning and attack package intelligence team for the strike against Syria in 1983 - in which we lost a pilot and had another one captured until Jesse Jackson got him out - and numerous other operations against Syria both before the Iraq war and during the insurgency.”

“My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother's side, I am the grandson of a High Court judge and celebrated intelligence officer, so it's quite an unusual combination.”

“I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”

“Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.”

“True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.”

“Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”

“The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.”

“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.”

“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.”

“An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.”

“I started my career in Naval Intelligence when I entered as a Russian language interpreter sent to DLI, the Defense Language Institute.”

“Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.”

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.”

“I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”