Intelligence Quotes

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.

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.

We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.

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.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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.

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.

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.