Best Intelligence Quotes by famous personalities

Genius is initiative on fire.

- Holbrook Jackson

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Knowledge is love and light and vision.

- Helen Keller

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You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

- Robert Kiyosaki

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I was an intelligence officer not a policy-maker.

- Cofer Black

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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

- Groucho Marx

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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

- Samuel Goldwyn

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Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

- Jose Mourinho

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

- E. Stanley Jones

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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

- Barbara Walters

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Without consciousness and intelligence the universe would lack meaning.

- Clifford D. Simak

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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

- Rafik Hariri

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We live less and less and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

- Remy de Gourmont

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

- Curt Weldon

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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies I did not make use of intelligence mathematics or maps.

- Christopher Columbus

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Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.

- Claude Chabrol

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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

- Simone Weil

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I've always wanted to be a spy and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

- Elizabeth Hurley

Intelligence

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

- A. A. Milne

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Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

- Mike Rogers

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Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never or had very seldom produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

- Aldrich Ames

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But it has in addition an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

- Norman McLaren

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The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

- Chris Chocola

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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

- Abigail Adams

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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.

- Prince Andrew

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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior but then anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

- Alan Kay

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We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

- Henri Bergson

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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have including intelligence information.

- Warren Christopher

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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.

- Jim Ramstad

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When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to because they had no pilots.

- Robert M. Gates

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The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

- Ron Jaworski

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Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

- Jim Ramstad

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You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection if you would of our intelligence.

- Lee H. Hamilton

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While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

- John O. Brennan

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I apologize for being obvious but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man or any man of such warm intelligence.

- Ian Mcewan

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Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

- Jim Ryun

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Well our position and our chairman has talked about this extensively is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

- Richard Ben-Veniste

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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.

- Alexander Mackenzie

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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.

- Mikhail Bakunin

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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.

- James Joseph Sylvester

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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

- Ozzy Osbourne

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I'm fascinated by the journey that an intelligent and an ambitious woman makes in the professional world in contrast to the journey that a man of similar ambition, of similar intelligence makes. What sort of concessions does a woman have to make? Does she have to work 20 percent harder than a man?

- Charles Cumming

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I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

- Clyde Tombaugh

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

- Leopold Trepper

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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

- Vidal Sassoon

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Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.

- Richard M. Helms

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We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

- Condoleezza Rice

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This also turned out to be negative, so there is no material in the Central Intelligence Agency, either in the records or in the mind of any of the individuals, that there was any contact had or even contemplated with him.

- Richard M. Helms

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So many people say that obviously my game has changed since I arrived here and I say that it's good that it changed, otherwise it would show a lack of intelligence.

- Thierry Henry

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

- Pete Hoekstra

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But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

- Joan D. Vinge

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Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

- Annie Jump Cannon

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The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

- Todd Solondz

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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

- John Michael Hayes

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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

- Edward Thorndike

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The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

- Ken Lucas

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A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

- Jose Bergamin

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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

- Charles Munch

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Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

- Leon Panetta

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It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.'

- Arthur H. Compton

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You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

- Leon Panetta

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Intelligence is nothing without delight.

- Paul Claudel

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Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.

- Ben Kingsley

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I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

- Cristina Kirchner

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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

- Christian Lous Lange

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

- Carrie Chapman Catt

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Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

- Ethel Waters

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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

- James Clavell

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Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

- Tim Robbins

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Truth knows no color it appeals to intelligence.

- James Hal Cone

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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

- John Major

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I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

- Bernard Liautaud

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The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

- David Letterman

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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

- David M. Shoup

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When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

- Daniel Goleman

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I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.

- James R. Bath

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Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

- Daniel Goleman

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In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

- Aldrich Ames

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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

- Henri Bergson

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There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

- Aldrich Ames

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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

- Raymond Holliwell

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The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

- Aldrich Ames

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I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

- Lawrence Eagleburger

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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

- Aldrich Ames

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In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

- James Marsters

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Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

- Aldrich Ames

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The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

- Paul Harris

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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.

- E. Howard Hunt

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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

- Sri Aurobindo

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I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

- David Fincher

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

- Herbert Read

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Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

- Robert Mueller

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So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

- Robert Mueller

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In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

- Robert Mueller

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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

- Kevin Kelly

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Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

- Louis Pasteur

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The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

- Lindsey Graham

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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

- Edward Thorndike

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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.

- Huston Smith

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