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Image of Todd Solondz
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.
- Todd Solondz
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Janis Karpinski
Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to stop the war, to find Saddam - whatever the information is going to be used for, at whatever cost.
- Janis Karpinski
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Elliott Abrams
What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.
- Elliott Abrams
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Heather Mac Donald
I don't understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it's a mystery.
- Heather Mac Donald
Collection: Intelligence
Image of John O. Brennan
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
- John O. Brennan
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Linda Hunt
I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.
- Linda Hunt
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Richard Shelby
I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
- Richard Shelby
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Cathleen Schine
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.
- Cathleen Schine
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Marsha Blackburn
Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.
- Marsha Blackburn
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Marya Mannes
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
- Marya Mannes
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Clare Balding
I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.
- Clare Balding
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Gloria Naylor
The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.
- Gloria Naylor
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Herbert Read
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
- Herbert Read
Collection: Intelligence
Image of N. Chandrababu Naidu
Modi has misused institutions like the ED, Intelligence Bureau, CBI, RBI and National Statistical Commission for political gains and harassing his political opponents. Modi lost his credibility by all these acts.
- N. Chandrababu Naidu
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Jacques Barzun
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
- Jacques Barzun
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Seth Shostak
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.
- Seth Shostak
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Carl Levin
Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
- Carl Levin
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Peter Schuyler
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
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Louis Dudek
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake.
- Louis Dudek
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Leland Stanford
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
- Leland Stanford
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Christian Lous Lange
It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
- Christian Lous Lange
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Seymour Hersh
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
- Seymour Hersh
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Morarji Desai
I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.
- Morarji Desai
Collection: Intelligence
Image of David Kay
I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.
- David Kay
Collection: Intelligence
Image of John Lloyd
I'd never bought the idea that you don't lose money by underestimating the intelligence of the audience. Although perhaps I should add that I've never really made that much money.
- John Lloyd
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Frank Carlucci
I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.
- Frank Carlucci
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Thornton Wilder
Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
- Thornton Wilder
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Nikola Tesla
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
- Nikola Tesla
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Cornelia Otis Skinner
We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.
- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Chris French
Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.
- Chris French
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Brander Matthews
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
- Brander Matthews
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Isabel Briggs Myers
Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.
- Isabel Briggs Myers
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Christian Friedrich Hebbel
It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Collection: Intelligence
Image of James Moore
If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?
- James Moore
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Joseph Chenier
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
- Joseph Chenier
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Lucille Clifton
Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
- Lucille Clifton
Collection: Intelligence
Image of John F. Akers
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
- John F. Akers
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Massad Ayoob
You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.
- Massad Ayoob
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Walther Rathenau
Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
- Walther Rathenau
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Josh Lieb
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
- Josh Lieb
Collection: Intelligence
Image of H. L. Mencken
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Dan Quayle
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
- Dan Quayle
Collection: Intelligence
Image of William Shakespeare
That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Robert Southey
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.
- Robert Southey
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Bertrand Russell
Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.
- Bertrand Russell
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Madame de Stael
intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.
- Madame de Stael
Collection: Intelligence
Image of William Shakespeare
I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Intelligence
Image of Seneca the Younger
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Intelligence