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.
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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.
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.
It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.
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.
Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.