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.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
The universe is an intelligence test.
Intelligence is a moral category.
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.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.
Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men in intelligence or race so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
I'm in awe of the universe but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals though even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative whether Buddhist or Catholic.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
In these troubled uncertain times we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.