A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
~By Victoria Principal ~
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
~By Henri Bergson ~
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
~By Wayne White ~
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
~By Simone Weil ~
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
~By Zbigniew Brzezinski ~
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
~By Paul Harris ~
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
~By Vernon A. Walters ~
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.
~By Annie Jump Cannon ~
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.
~By Prince Andrew ~
Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
~By Marsha Blackburn ~
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
~By Josh Billings ~
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
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.
~By James Joseph Sylvester ~
I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.
~By David Kay ~
I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
~By Curt Weldon ~
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.
~By Miguel de Unamuno ~
Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
~By Carl Levin ~
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
~By Susan Sontag ~
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
~By Vernor Vinge ~
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.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
~By Pierre Laval ~
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
~By Stephen Hawking ~
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
~By Marya Mannes ~
Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies.
~By Saxby Chambliss ~
I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
~By Ted Stevens ~
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
~By Simone Weil ~
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.
~By Henri Bergson ~
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
~By Edward Thorndike ~
It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.
~By Carole King ~
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.
~By Thierry Henry ~
We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
~By Betty Dodson ~
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
~By Holly Near ~
Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.
~By Stephen Cambone ~
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~By Albert Camus ~
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
~By Alan Perlis ~
We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to the terrorists where they are. That responsibility has waned in the last year as military and intelligence resources were withdrawn from Afghanistan and Pakistan to be used in Iraq.
~By Bob Graham ~
Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
~By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison ~
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
You want to keep intelligence separate from policy.
~By Bobby Ray Inman ~
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
~By Arlen Specter ~
In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
~By Hillary Clinton ~
The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
~By William Hedgcock Webster ~
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
~By Karl A. Menninger ~
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Louis Freeh said on national TV that actionable intelligence could have allowed us to stop the hijackings.
~By Curt Weldon ~
I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.
~By Bernard Liautaud ~
I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.
~By Oded Fehr ~
The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
~By Paul Harris ~
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.
~By John Pistole ~
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
~By Seymour Hersh ~
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.
~By Herbert Read ~
The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.
~By Charles Foster Bass ~
Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
~By Theodore White ~
The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.
~By Michael K. Simpson ~
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.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
~By Morris West ~
I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
~By Rafik Hariri ~
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
~By George William Curtis ~
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.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
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.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
~By Ted Stevens ~
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
~By George J. Mitchell ~
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.
~By Huston Smith ~
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
~By John Calvin ~
Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
~By E. Stanley Jones ~
Millions of dollars' worth of advertising shows such little respect for the reader's intelligence that it amounts almost to outright insult.
~By James Randolph Adams ~
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
~By Joseph Story ~
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
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