Intelligence Quotes

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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.

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

The universe is an intelligence test.

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.

We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.