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3 December 2020 Larry Ellison

Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

3 December 2020 Christine Baranski

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He’s the most easygoing, lovely man, but he’s got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith

Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

3 December 2020 Simone Weil

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

3 December 2020 Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

3 December 2020 Voltaire

Common sense is not so common.

3 December 2020 Ian Mcewan

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

3 December 2020 Janis Karpinski

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

3 December 2020 Keith Henson

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

3 December 2020 Frank Carlucci

Intelligence is not a science.

3 December 2020 Aldrich Ames

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn’t support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

3 December 2020 Arnold J. Toynbee

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

3 December 2020 Laurence J. Peter

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

3 December 2020 Rose Kennedy

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts – spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back – length of life.

3 December 2020 Vernor Vinge

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

3 December 2020 Frank Carlucci

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us… they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

3 December 2020 Michael Caine

I’m every bourgeois nightmare – a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

3 December 2020 Louis Pasteur

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

3 December 2020 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

3 December 2020 Saxby Chambliss

Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.

3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

3 December 2020 Raymond Holliwell

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

3 December 2020 Sigmund Freud

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

3 December 2020 David Letterman

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

3 December 2020 Danny Aiello

Look, people have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don’t care where it is, when they look at me it’s not about my intelligence. It’s who can I beat up.

3 December 2020 Wayne Dyer

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

3 December 2020 Robert Sternberg

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

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