Intelligence Quotes
3172 quotes by 1911 authors
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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…
— Michael K. Simpson
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
— Gijs de Vries
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The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and…
— John Bruton
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
— Pearl S. Buck
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How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
— Robert M. Lindner
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Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.
— Ralph Wiley
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Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence. It cannot be compared to anything else: it is so sharp, precise, obvious, and direct. If we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march…
— Sun Tzu
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Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.
— John F. Kennedy
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Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
— Walter Bradford Cannon
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its…
— Jean Piaget
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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
— Alfred Binet
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Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of…
— Nikola Tesla
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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence…
— Martin Rees
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If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.
— Bruce Barton
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In order that the relations between science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to…
— William Jay Youmans
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Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as…
— Isaac Asimov
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Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in…
— Isaac Asimov
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Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
— Remy de Gourmont
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