Intelligence Quotes

The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems.

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.

I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala, but I did see the traffic that was coming in from Guatemala City, because it was very relevant to me, and of course I exchanged what I had with the chief of station in Guatemala City.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

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.