3 December 2020 James Joseph Sylvester 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.
3 December 2020 Paul Harris The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
3 December 2020 Linus Torvalds Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
3 December 2020 James Whistler I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
3 December 2020 David Hunt The Homeland Security department doesn’t have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can’t direct anything except inside their bureau.
3 December 2020 Ron Jaworski The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hadley That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
3 December 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
3 December 2020 F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
3 December 2020 Dolly Parton I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.
3 December 2020 Jeff Sessions I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
3 December 2020 Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
3 December 2020 Leon Panetta You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
3 December 2020 Jim Parsons I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you’re stuck.
3 December 2020 Louis Freeh Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It’s great. The problem is there’s a million dots at the time.
3 December 2020 Brad Delson I’m inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.
3 December 2020 Freeman Dyson The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
3 December 2020 Antonio Gramsci I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
3 December 2020 Jeff Hawkins Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.
3 December 2020 Alan Alda Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
3 December 2020 Robyn Hitchcock People’s intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don’t tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
3 December 2020 Arthur H. Compton It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence – an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered – ‘In the beginning, God.’
3 December 2020 Don Herold It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
3 December 2020 Margaret J. Wheatley Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone’s commitment and intelligence.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Swift When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Eagleburger I think what he’s – what he believes, and he may be correct, I don’t know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what’s going on in Iraq that we haven’t revealed to others.
