I Quotes
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“Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.”
Source: The Reagan Diaries
“Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We’re just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it’s the be all and end all.”
Source: The Association
“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.”
Source: Marcus Garvey Life and Lessons: A Centennial Companion to the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
“Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.”
“Intelligence shortcomings have a thousand fathers; secret intelligence triumphs are orphans.”
“Intelligence solves problems & produces money.Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.”
Source: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
“Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.”
“Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Intelligence tells you what you to do.
Insight tells you how to do it.
Understanding tells you when to do it.
Wisdom tells you why you do it.
Discernment tells you what you to do.
Skill tells you how to do it.
Intuition tells you when to do it.
Purpose tells you why you do it.
Conviction tells you what you to do.
Knowledge tells you how to do it.
Experience tells you when to do it.
Commonsense tells you why you do it.
Your mind tells you what you to do.
Your heart tells you how to do it.
Your spirit tells you when to do it.
Your soul tells you why you do it.
Talent tells you what you to do.
Mastery tells you how to do it.
Genius tells you when to do it.
Intellect tells you why you do it.”
“Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.”
Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Intelligence, the most significant strength of humans, is insignificant in front of the persistence of ants.”
Source: Quantraz
“Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.”
“Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.”
“Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.”
“Intelligence will take you to the mountaintop; wisdom will take you to the stars.”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.”
“Intelligence without introspection is just sophisticated pattern matching”
“Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.”
“Intelligence without wisdom is knowledge being stupid.”
“Intelligence without wisdom is like a parachute without a ripcord. You might have everything that you need, but you have nothing that you can use.”
“Intelligence without wisdom is nothing more than stupidity that looks smart.”
“Intelligence won wars, not brute force.”
Source: The Staff of Serapis
“Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.”
“Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.”
“Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .”
Source: Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage
“Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.”
“Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world”
Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55
“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”
“Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.”
Source: Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse
“Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.”
Source: Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches
“Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.”
“Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
“Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.”
“Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.”
“Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.”
Source: The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places
“Intelligent, artistic, hard-working, well-mannered, educated, decent... good! Strong! Masculine! What else... Oh yes! Good-looking, sexy, experienced, exceptionally knowledgeable in bed, always fashionable, stylish, fragrant, flawless, faultless, I’m-just-perfect Alex!
And me? I’m just like everyone else: a cocktail of virtues and shortcomings served with a couple of flaws. And that’s why this superhuman is starting to infuriate me. I desperately want to hurt his feelings or at least offend him in some way. This seems like an unhealthy reaction at first glance but is actually completely healthy, because next to people like him – if others like him even exist – you feel more awkward, more flawed, more stupid, and more subhuman than ever.”
Source: Monogamy Book One. Lover
“Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.”
“Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.”
“Intelligent design cannot explain Darwinian evolution. Darwin's whole point is that variation and change are random and without higher purpose. We cannot imagine that God designed this disproof of His own existence.”
“Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.”
“Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.”
“Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”
“Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)”
Source: Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
“Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.”
“Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.”
“Intelligent design itself does not have any content.”
“Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.”
“Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.”
“Intelligent disciplined work = Proper organization and management of goals/projects + disciplined work + entitlement”
Source: Inner Powers