My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't...

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one...

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

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.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic...

Very clever but dumb at shooting... dumb as a person but clever at shooting. That's LOGIC!

Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the same mistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I...

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

He was too clever. If you're that clever you can argue yourself into anything. You just leave common sense behind.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. - HEINRICH HEINE

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.

It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart.

An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took...

Table, ivory ornament, rainbow, onion, hairstyle, mollusk, sabbat, violence, cuticle, melodrama, gutter, honey, handkerchief ... nothing moved her. {...} Nothing managed to be more than it really was....

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

Well," Harry said, "look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think,...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, print put forward a definition of intelligence that gave priority to the objective, rational use of the mind and at the same time encouraged forms of public...

The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing"...