Intelligence Quotes

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Michel Foucault

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Gijs de Vries

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

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Edgar Degas

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

Rush Limbaugh

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

Morarji Desai

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

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

David Kay

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

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare

I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service.

Markus Wolf

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?

Erin Gray

The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour.

Brendan Coyle

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

Jose Mourinho

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Caleb Cushing