Quotes about Intelligence

I mean, it's not just one day you get up, bang, and you got Osama bin Laden. It's the kind of thing where an awful lot of people over a long period of time - thousands have worked this case and these issues and followed on the leads and captured bad guys and interrogated them and so-forth.

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.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are. [ Facebook post , August 31, 2013]

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.