Fareed Zakaria Quotes

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

The capacity to reason is a special sort of capacity because it can lead us to places that we did not expect to go.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I am always up to steal secrets from smart people.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.