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

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

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

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

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

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

It is not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it is a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

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

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.

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

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.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I did not have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

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.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

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

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

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.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

I do not intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

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