“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”
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“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.”
“Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.”
“Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.”
“That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.”
“All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.”
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.”
“Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
“In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.”
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
“I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.”
“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”
“Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.”
“I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.”
“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.”
“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.”
“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.”
“If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.”
“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.”
“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.”