Famous Quotes: Intelligence

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
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Information is not knowledge.
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The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
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I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
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But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.
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The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
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Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.
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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.
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