Quotes about Intelligence

“My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.”

“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”

“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.”

“I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence' - there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.”

“Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.”

“The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.”

“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”

“The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.”

“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”

“I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”

“The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency.”

“Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.”

“I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.”

“The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.”

“We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.”

“We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.”

“For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.”

“I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.”

“Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.”

“It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.”