I Quotes
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“Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.”
“Intelligence collection has been given an additional bureaucracy to correct the problems created by too much bureaucracy in intelligence collection.”
“Intelligence combined with kindness are the purest forms of beauty.”
Source: Cinderella In Focus: "Finding hope when you're feeling a sense of hopelessness!"
“Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory”
“Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.”
“Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.”
“Intelligence communities are very closed communities, but at the same time, you don't only learn how to fight terrorism. You need to learn about life, about West and East, geography, history, culture, there are many, many things that you learn in order to be able to solve puzzles.”
“Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.”
“Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”
Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
“Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.”
“Intelligence, emotions, ethics, and values are part of human intelligence; without those, we are far away from human-level AI.”
Source: Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0
“Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.”
Source: Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
“Intelligence essentially means that your intellect is sharp enough to see life the way it is.”
“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Intelligence forbids tears.”
Source: The Doris Lessing Reader
“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.”
“Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.”
“Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.”
“Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.”
“Intelligence in the cat is underrated.”
“Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.”
“Intelligence involves a great deal more than the ability to follow rules ( which is what chess-playing program does). It is also the ability to make up the rules for oneself, when they are needed, or to learn new rules through trial and error.”
Source: Creation: Life and How to Make It
“Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.”
“Intelligence is a critical thing.”
“Intelligence is a disciple, wisdom is its master.
Caution is a disciple, prudence is its master.
Discernment is a disciple, intuition is its master.
Truth is a disciple, reality is its master.
Experience is a disciple, awareness is its master.
Illumination is a disciple, enlightenment is its master.
Desire is a disciple, pleasure is its master.
Laughter is a disciple, joy is its master.
Need is a disciple, want is its master.
Prudence is a disciple, virtue is its master.
Knowledge is a disciple, truth is its master.
The heart is a disciple, the mind is its master.
The mind is a disciple, the soul is its master.
The body is a disciple, the flesh is its master.
The soul is a disciple, the spirit is its master.
The present is a disciple, the past is its master.
The future is a disciple, the present is its master.
The past is a disciple, eternity is its master.
Mankind is a disciple, nature is its master.
Eternity is a disciple, God is its master.”
“Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.”
“Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere”
Source: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“Intelligence is a great scholar,
virtue is an extraordinary saint,
love is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of integrity.
Awareness is a great scholar,
compassion is an extraordinary saint,
prudence is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of humanity.
Intellect is a great scholar,
truth is an extraordinary saint,
experience is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of philosophy.
Curiosity is a great scholar,
humility is an extraordinary saint,
discipline is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of discovery.
Understanding is a great scholar,
patience is an extraordinary saint,
discernment is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of harmony.
Life is a great scholar,
God is an extraordinary saint,
nature is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of divinity.
Reality is a great scholar,
time is an extraordinary saint,
fate is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of eternity.
The mind is a great scholar,
the heart is an extraordinary saint,
the soul is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of spirituality.
Mankind is a great scholar,
the world is an extraordinary saint,
the universe is a remarkable sage;
together they are alters of immortality.”
“Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc”
“Intelligence is a light for you and others - those who do not understand it abuse it for their darkness.”
“Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”
“Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature
“Intelligence is a mere means of building ones focus,it's knowledge,wisdom and understanding that is the factor that attributes to one achieving ones position in society to gain ones place to be a leader and a guide”
“Intelligence is a moral category.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.”
“Intelligence is a professor, wisdom is a sage.”
“Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.”
“Intelligence is a team effort: within the organization, internally with other agencies and ministries, and externally with other countries’ organizations.”
Source: The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
“Intelligence is a tenant in the house of wisdom.
Knowledge is a tenant in the house of nature.
Insight is a tenant in the house of understanding.
Wealth is a tenant in the house of risk.
Mastery is a tenant in the house of discipline.
Patience is a tenant in the house of virtue.
Tolerance is a tenant in the house of freedom.
Awareness is a tenant in the house of experience.
Rest is a tenant in the house of sleep.
Laughter is a tenant in the house of joy.
Hope is a tenant in the house of faith.
Contentment is a tenant in the house of peace.
Kindness is a tenant in the house of love.
Harmony is a tenant in the house of order.
Humility is a tenant in the house of honor.
Caution is a tenant in the house of prudence.
Speech is a tenant in the house of silence.
Certainty is a tenant in the house of conviction.
Expectation is a tenant in the house of desire.
Need is a tenant in the house of want.
Truth is a tenant in the house of reality.
Chance is a tenant in the house of fate.
Time is a tenant in the house of eternity.
Life is a tenant in the house of death.
Nature is a tenant in the house of God.”
“Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.”
“Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.”
“intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!”
Source: Resurrecting Midnight
“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
“Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.”
“Intelligence is an insufficient commodity, but imagination is an infinite commodity.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become. This notion is not so. All knowledge is one hundred percent evenly present in all places, at all times. Aware is what you and I want to become. The more aware we become of this truth about intelligence, the better off we will be.”
“Intelligence is Attractive,
Kindness is Heart Melting,
But a combination of the two
is Irresistible.”