“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”
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“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
“Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.”
“George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.”
“There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.”
“I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.”
“I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.”
“The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'”
“Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.”
“Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.”
“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.”
“I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.”
“Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.”
“Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.”
“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”
“Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.”
“Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.”
“Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.”
“Intelligence is enormously sexy.”
“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.”
“We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.”
“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.”
“The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.”