Top 625 Intelligence Quotes

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.
Yuval Noah Harari
I don’t intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold Pinter
Remember to be as smart as you are.
Judd Nelson
Today, billions of mobile devices with extraordinary power are uniting with advancements in robotics artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and so much more.
Steve Mollenkopf
The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
Leonard Boswell
I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.
Maya Angelou
In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator’s separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
Bobby Ray Inman
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.
Michio Kaku
As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
Sebastian Thrun
I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.
Henry Paulson
I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s – military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
Noam Chomsky
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman
It’s going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
Colin Angle
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies – their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
Jules Verne
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 – or than it will be in the coming years.
John O. Brennan
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White
In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You’ve got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world’s giantest spy center.
Heather Brooke
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin
If you don’t have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarantee you can get a great job, paying really well, in less than three months. How? Learn to program.
Tucker Max
During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.
Bob Graham
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation’s ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
Mike Simpson
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.’
Arthur Compton
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I’m really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
Jane Harman
I’ve always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.
Kristin Hersh
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus Hare
I try to put all I am as a person into what I do. My intelligence, my emotion. I’ve done that in everything.
Tom Heinsohn
Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.
Abigail Spanberger
When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The key thing about force protection is… if you focus too much on force protection, and you disengage yourself from the community, you’re putting yourself at greater risk because you need to interact with the community in a positive way to gain the intelligence you need.
H. R. McMaster
But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It’s about character, it’s about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don’t see.
Ron Silver
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
Adam Schiff
Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.
John Rampton
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.
Lev Vygotsky
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides
The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, ‘What does this have to do with me, with life as I know it?’ That’s the question answered by all these books about how Proust was actually a neuroscientist or how Proust can teach you emotional intelligence.
Elif Batuman
I’d never bought the idea that you don’t lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I’ve never really made that much money.
John Lloyd
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold
As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a ‘singularity.’
Stephen Hawking
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
Frank Carlucci
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
James Clavell

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
John Sherman Cooper
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Phyllis McGinley
Even though chess isn’t the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.
Steven Levy
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality – not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate – is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
Oliver Joseph Lodge
All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.
Ray Kurzweil
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near
I believe there’s other forms of intelligence in the universe. I’ve seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we’re the most intelligent things in the universe… well, that’s just depressing.
Rekha Sharma
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings
My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.
Dennis C. Blair
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
Bob Graham