Famous Quotes: Intelligence

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.
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You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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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.
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
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Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.
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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.
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We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.
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I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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