A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

当对幻觉的需求非常强烈时，大量的智慧可以投入到无知中去。

A mind too active is no mind at all.

过于活跃的头脑根本不是头脑。

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

行动是智力的真正衡量标准。

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

广告:一种长久蒙蔽人类智慧以从中赚钱的科学。

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

大约六个月后，我告诉妈妈，我想停止上课，她很聪明，不会强迫我继续。此外，上课要花钱，这在我们家里一点也不充裕。

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

一切智慧的思想都已经被思想了;我们所需要做的只是试着重新思考它们。

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

知识分子是那种能观察自己思想的人。

And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.

我对情报评估提出了异议，我认为决策者有责任根据他们收到的情报做出最佳判断。

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

忙碌并不总是意味着真正的工作。所有工作的目标都是生产或成就，而要达到其中任何一个目标，都必须有先见之明、系统、计划、智慧、诚实的目标，以及勤奋。表面上做，实际上没有做。

Belief is the death of intelligence.

信念是智慧之死。

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

但是，每当我们获取信息并与他人沟通的能力得到提高时，在某种意义上，我们的智力就会超过自然智力。

But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.

但情报官员从来没有真正退休，他们只是躲在暗处。

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

但是，它还具有一种更宝贵的品质——人类智慧的意识、人类的精神以及人类是一种社会动物。

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

下棋是对人类智力的一种浪费，就像你在广告公司外面能找到的一样。

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

孩子们以他们的智慧和热情，他们的好奇心，他们对羞耻的不容忍，他们清晰而无情的愿景而著称。