616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.” — John Podhoretz

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“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.” — Phaedrus

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“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.” — William Hague

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“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“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.” — Damon Albarn

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“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.” — Sophia Bush

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“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.” — Arlen Specter

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“Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.” — Andrea Dworkin

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“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.” — Samuel Goldwyn

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“It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.” — Henry Adams

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“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.” — Walter Lippmann

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“If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.” — Holly Near

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“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.” — Brad Thor

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“It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.” — John le Carre

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“One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.” — Lewis Mumford

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“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.” — Daniel Goleman

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“Intelligence is enormously sexy.” — Frank Langella

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“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.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Genius is initiative on fire.” — Holbrook Jackson

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“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.” — John Sununu

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“My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.” — Helen Gurley Brown

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“The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.” — John Jay Hooker

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“Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.” — Christine Baranski

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“After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.” — Washington Irving

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