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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy. – Theodore White

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

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. – John McCarthy

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. – Thomas Moore

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

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

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

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

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

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. – John Ciardi

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

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. – George Saunders

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

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

I want to exude strength and intelligence. – Portia de Rossi

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. – Freeman Dyson

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

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. – Mikhail Bakunin

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

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means. – Condoleezza Rice