Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's not showy. He's quietly effective. He has marshaled his intelligence in the service of getting things done.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

I don't think so. Whatever went on in the minds of Syrian military intelligence officials I really can't speak to.

I don't know if it's anything to be alarmed about. As long as it's used for intelligence versus harassment, I have no problem with it.

Linus Torvalds

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Larry Niven

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

Madame de Stael

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

John le Carre

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

Josh Billings

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Lucille Clifton

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Gloria Steinem

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Nancy Reagan

the charm, the humor, the intelligence -- the wise man that he is.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

William Feather

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Yuri Gagarin

I don't see any god up here.

Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Lewis Mumford

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Thomas a Kempis

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Robert Southey

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

Todd Akin

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Thomas Jefferson

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Thornton Wilder

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.