Intelligence Quotes

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The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing. — Herodotus
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. — Albert Einstein
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. — Phaedrus
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. — Will Cuppy
Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence. — John Michael Hayes
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute… — George Bancroft
Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United… — Bobby Ray Inman
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of… — Bobby Ray Inman
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the… — Andrew Jackson
I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence. — Bernard Liautaud
The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world. — Pete Hoekstra
As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is… — Susan Rice
The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration. — Lindsey Graham
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. — Louis Pasteur
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… — Lewis Thomas
The actions that we take on the counterterrorism front, again, are to take actions against individuals where we believe that the intelligence base is so… — John O. Brennan
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if… — Paul Graham
The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour. — Brendan Coyle
Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a… — Lynn Margulis

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