#intelligence

Intelligence is a moral category. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#intelligence #moral

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. ↗

— Josh Billings

#evidence #greater #nothing #superior #surprised

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. ↗

— Josh Billings

#anything #common #common sense #elegant #genius

Israel's first king, Saul, looked like he was born for the role. He was tall, handsome, intelligent, and sensitive to God's leading. But he eventually lost most of his attractive qualities, the most important being obedience. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#obedience #saul #intelligence

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything. ↗

— Prince Andrew

#bar #better #does #everything #hell

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

#brute force #civilization #common #common mind #degree

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#deep #great #great deal #ignorance #illusion