Quotes of: Intelligence-community Keyword

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on....

Maya Angelou

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good...

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.

Senegalese

An intelligent foe is better than a stupid friend.

Senegalese

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

William P. Young

...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those fol...

Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age

We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with the groupthink of church and society in order to live their own lives. (It’s why you sti...

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits that spirituality ostensib...

Supernatural Hypocrisy: The Cognitive Dissonance of a God Cosmology

Learning to practise mindfulness greatly enhances our ability to manifest emotional intelligence and equanimity under pressure and to display calmness, empathy and adaptability when communicating with others, whether it be with co-workers, clients or...

Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called 'state security' in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stali...

Mark Gevisser

Some information is classified legitimately; as with military hardware, secrecy sometimes really is in the national interest. Further, military, political, and intelligence communities tend to value secrecy for its own sake. It's a way of silencing c...

Carl Sagan

I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my senses. That there are immaterial and intelligent substances I do not at all doubt; but that it is impossible for God to communicate th...

Voltaire

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

Crime and Punishment

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Your average man is not intelligent enough not to fake being intelligent enough.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Tim Heidecker

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

Buzz Aldrin

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

Penn Jillette

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

Marty Feldman