Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
Powys, John C. | Intelligence
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffler | Intelligence
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Simone Weil | Intelligence
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley | Intelligence
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell | Intelligence
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Intelligence
Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
Montaigne, Michel De | Intelligence
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.
Seneca | Intelligence
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Virginia Woolf | Intelligence
There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin | Intelligence
The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary | Intelligence
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil | Intelligence
The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.
Moore, George | Intelligence
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett | Intelligence
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Laurence J. Peter | Intelligence
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. Rowling | Intelligence
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
Marilyn vos Savant | Intelligence
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
David Herbert Lawrence | Intelligence
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein | Intelligence
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.
Andrew Jackson | Intelligence
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
William Feather | Intelligence
My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
Ellen DeGeneres | Intelligence
Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Bovee, Christian Nestell | Intelligence
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono | Intelligence
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Spenser, Edmund | Intelligence
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
John Steinbeck | Intelligence
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Linus Torvalds | Intelligence
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
George Santayana | Intelligence
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht | Intelligence
Intelligence is a moral category.
Theodor Adorno | Intelligence
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Konrad Adenauer | Intelligence
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine | Intelligence
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Chinese Proverb | Intelligence
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley, Jr. | Intelligence
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter | Intelligence
George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.
Rush Limbaugh | Intelligence
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar | Intelligence
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
Bruce Springsteen | Intelligence
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Goethe, Johann Von | Intelligence
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Lichtenberg, Georg C. | Intelligence
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
Thomas Szasz | Intelligence
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Goethe, Johann Von | Intelligence
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter | Intelligence
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Camus, Albert | Intelligence
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving | Intelligence
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Johnson, Samuel | Intelligence
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
Seneca | Intelligence
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland | Intelligence
Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
John Key | Intelligence
You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
Lee H. Hamilton | Intelligence
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
Bobby Ray Inman | Intelligence
You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.
Marvin Hamlisch | Intelligence
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.
Leon Panetta | Intelligence
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.
Gijs de Vries | Intelligence
Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
Richard M. Helms | Intelligence
Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?
Andrew Greeley | Intelligence
Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.
Pratibha Patil | Intelligence
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
Clifford D. Simak | Intelligence
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
Vernor Vinge | Intelligence
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore | Intelligence
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
John O. Brennan | Intelligence
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
Brian Eno | Intelligence
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 | Intelligence
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
Robert M. Gates | Intelligence
When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.
Scott Ritter | Intelligence
When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.
George Tenet | Intelligence
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
Gary Gygax | Intelligence
When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
Carl Levin | Intelligence
We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.
Michael Chertoff | Intelligence
We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
John Mica | Intelligence
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.
Richard Ben-Veniste | Intelligence
Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.
Alexander Downer | Intelligence
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
John Major | Intelligence
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.
Robert Sternberg | Intelligence
Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
Leon Panetta | Intelligence
Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.
Leopold Trepper | Intelligence
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.
Cofer Black | Intelligence
We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
John Sununu | Intelligence
We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
Henri Bergson | Intelligence
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
Bob Graham | Intelligence
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science - revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
John Fiske | Intelligence
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
Bob Graham | Intelligence
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy de Gourmont | Intelligence
We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.
Condoleezza Rice | Intelligence
We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?
Erin Gray | Intelligence
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.
Stephen Cambone | Intelligence
We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.
Brad Thor | Intelligence
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski | Intelligence
We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
Aldrich Ames | Intelligence
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253.
Peter King | Intelligence
We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
Jane Harman | Intelligence
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
John O. Brennan | Intelligence
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
Betty Dodson | Intelligence
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin | Intelligence
Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.
James Hal Cone | Intelligence
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan | Intelligence
To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.
George Tenet | Intelligence
To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
David M. Shoup | Intelligence
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Paul Harris | Intelligence
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp | Intelligence
This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
Bob Graham | Intelligence
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