Intelligence Quotes

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Albert Einstein

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

Gijs de Vries

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.

Ron Silver

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Joan Cusack

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Edward Dahlberg

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

John Michael Hayes

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

Charles Foster Bass

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.

William Least Heat-Moon

Intelligence is not a science.

Frank Carlucci

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

I will not, nor will I ever, publicly divulge sensitive intelligence sources and methods. For when that happens, our national security is endangered and lives can be lost.

John O. Brennan

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Barack Obama

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

George Tenet

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

David Fincher

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sigmund Freud

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)