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Intelligence

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. – Margaret J. Wheatley

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. – Rush Limbaugh

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect. – Auguste Rodin

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. – Harold Pinter

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. – Linus Torvalds

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. – William F. Buckley, Jr.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. – Julian Assange

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. – Bryant H. McGill

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. – Christopher Columbus

I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools. – Giacomo Casanova

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. – Bryant H. McGill

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces. – Bryant H. McGill

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. – Emile M. Cioran

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. – Samuel Beckett

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none. – Claude Chabrol

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence. – E. Stanley Jones

Intelligence is enormously sexy. – Frank Langella

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

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