Intelligence Quotes

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

George Orwell

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

George Santayana

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

George Saunders

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 act...

George Tenet

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

Gijs de Vries

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Gijs de Vries

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

George Woodcock

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

Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Henry Adams

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Henry Adams

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

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Henri Bergson

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

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.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Honore de Balzac

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