Quotes about Intelligence

“We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.”

“What happens is once you start to understand football, you realise that it's not just about the physical side of the game and chasing after a ball. It's a strategic sport which requires a lot of intelligence. It's a very mental game.”

“Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.”

“Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.”

“It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to the high rock and tower of contemplation.”

“Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.”

“The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.”

“When we praise children for their intelligence, we tell them that this is the name of the game: Look smart; don't risk making mistakes.”

“Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.”

“In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely; it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.”

“The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.”

“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”

“I firmly believe that talent and intelligence are universal, but resources and opportunities are not.”

“Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.”

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”

“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.”

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

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

“In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program.”

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”