Intelligence Quotes

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Paul Claudel

Police can only act on intelligence.

P. Chidambaram

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 you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad s...

Paul Graham

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Paul Harris

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Paul Harris

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

Paul Harris

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.

Pete Hoekstra

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Phaedrus

But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.

Pierre Laval

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

Pat Roberts

In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the T...

Paul Revere

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Peter Schuyler

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.

Peter Thiel

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Quentin Crisp

The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't fin...

Richard Ben-Veniste

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

Richard Dawkins

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Ralph Waldo Emerson