By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal. – George Tenet
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. – George Woodcock
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. – G. H. Hardy
With respect to Iraq, I did favour the continuity of American forces to work with the new Maliki government. They had enormous needs for intelligence, for training on everything from airplanes to more sophisticated ground equipment and the like. – Hillary Clinton
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. – Harold Pinter
Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. – Jean Piaget
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. – Jim Sensenbrenner
I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest. – Jeff Sessions
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. – J. K. Rowling
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies – their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy. – Jules Verne
It’s part of a writer’s profession, as it’s part of a spy’s profession, to prey on the community to which he’s attached, to take away information – often in secret – and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it’s his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. – John le Carre
I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that’s not always true the other way around. – John Mackey
Intelligence augmentation decreases the need for specialization and increases participatory complexity. – Jamais Cascio
Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else. – James E. Faust
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? – John Keats
It’s not new: In the ’70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on ‘All in the Family,’ but it was all in Carroll O’Connor’s performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed. – Jason Bateman
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity. – Jacques Yves Cousteau
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To accomplish its mission, the FBI relies heavily upon its law enforcement and intelligence partners around the nation and around the globe. By combining our resources and our collective expertise, we are able to investigate national security threats that cross both geographical and jurisdictional boundaries. – James Comey
An aria in an opera – Handel’s ‘Ombra mai fu,’ for example – gets along with an incredibly small number of words and ideas and a large amount of variation and repetition. That’s the beauty of it. It’s not taxing to the listener’s intelligence because if you haven’t heard it the first time round, it’ll come around again. – James Fenton
