Intelligence Quotes - page 5

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence. (Oded Fehr)
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence. View quote
Bob Graham
The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. View quote
Chris Chocola
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth? View quote
Curt Weldon
Intelligence is not a science. View quote
Frank Carlucci
Intelligence is enormously sexy. View quote
Frank Langella
You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. View quote
Gijs de Vries
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. View quote
Gijs de Vries
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. View quote
Holly Near
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. View quote
Lord Mountbatten
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. (Mark Kennedy)
I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. View quote
Paul Cellucci
Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. View quote
Roger Wicker
We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future. View quote
Stephen Cambone
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that. View quote
Todd Solondz
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. View quote
Vernon A. Walters
Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow. View quote
William James
Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often,” he grinned and pushed at her belly, "expressed in curves. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before - a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
[T]he intelligence and ability of a colored person are in pretty direct proportion to the amount of white blood he has, and ... most of the positions of leadership, influence, and prominence in the Negro race are held not by real Negroes but by Mulattoes, many of whom have very little Negro blood. (Madison Grant)
You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will. View quote
Edward Snowden
You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk. View quote
Edward Snowden
I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it. View quote
James Frey