Intelligence Quotes

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.

Eriq La Salle

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Lewis Thomas

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.

Karl Von Clausewitz

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.

Charles Foster Bass

In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely it was, after all, the center for interrogations for Iraq.

Janis Karpinski

People have an image of Italians. When I go somewhere in the world, I don't care where it is, when they look at me it's not about my intelligence. It's who can I beat up.

Danny Aiello

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

John Major

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Tallulah Bankhead

There are three kinds of intelligence; one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince,

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

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Simone Weil

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

Richard Perle

A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

John A. Lincoln

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

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

Simone Weil

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

Frank Carlucci

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

James Clavell