Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Simply stated, the need for accurate intelligence and prescient analysis from CIA has never been greater than it is in 2013 - or than it will be in the coming years.
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.
The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
