Intelligence Quotes

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Johann von Goethe

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

Maurice Saatchi

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

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.

Brad Thor

I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

Ted Stevens

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. 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

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

John Scarlett

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

Remy de Gourmont

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

Alexander Downer

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Ernest Newman

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Russell Lynes

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Fay Wray

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.

Andre Maurois

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Deepak Chopra

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

Portia de Rossi

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.

Doc Hastings

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.

Joel Kinnaman

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

Leonard Boswell