Intelligence Quotes

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

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

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.

Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.