Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

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

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

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.

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.

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.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Lucille Clifton

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Henri Bergson

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

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.

Nolberto Solano

We have to play with intelligence and try to stop them getting the ball,

Gloria Steinem

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

H. L. Mencken

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

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

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Bill Frist

the intelligence committee's progress of the Phase II review of the prewar intelligence and its schedule for completion.

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Our staff has been trained extensively on how to teach students with multiple levels of intelligence in the same class.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence.

Vidal Sassoon

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

There is a threat...This is the object of our intelligence (verification).

Raymond Kelly

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

without speculating about the nature of the intelligence.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

Cofer Black

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

Seamus Heaney

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.