Intelligence Quotes

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

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.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.

Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.

The universe is an intelligence test.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.

I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

Information is not knowledge.