Intelligence Quotes

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.

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

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

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.

How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything except inside their bureau.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence.

Intelligence is a moral category.