I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature both animals and plants the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself you don't have to think about it.

If an animal does something we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason we call it intelligence.

They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret since I've never seen any intelligent military person nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence their character their knowledge reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence but an optimist because of will.

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable when you don't know what's coming at you.

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres the same lively generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

If a cat does something we call it instinct if we do the same thing for the same reason we call it intelligence.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

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.

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.

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.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore 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.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.