3,849 Quotes About Intelligence

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.