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Intelligence Quotes

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself; who gives your arguments a fair hearing and simply persists in his lunacy?

– George Orwell

1984. Part 3, Chapter 3. Winston’s thoughts about O’Brien, who has been assimilated by the Party and has fully absorbed their lunacy.

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.

– Howard Gardner

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

– Henry Adams

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise.

– George Tenet

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

– Henri Bergson

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We’ll tell you, you don’t have to drag it out of us.

– George Tenet

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

– Henry Ford

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.

– Hillary Clinton

I think all governments engage in intelligence gathering vis-a-vis other governments.

– Henry Paulson

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.

– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

– Groucho Marx

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

– Henry Adams

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

– Gloria Naylor

Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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 believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.

– Henry Eyring

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

– Godfried Danneels

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

– Helen Gurley Brown

Here’s the teaching point, if you’re teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn’t absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

– George Tenet

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

– Henry Ford

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.

– Henri Bergson

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

– Herodotus

No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability to feel the change faster and take decisive action faster.

– Guo Guangchang

I don’t intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

– Harold Pinter

No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

– H. L. Mencken

In America, you have the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. You’ve got drones now being considered for domestic surveillance. You have the National Security Agency building the world’s giantest spy center.

– Heather Brooke

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

– Henry David Thoreau

We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

– Graydon Carter

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