Famous Quotes & Sayings

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Jack Straw

The government's dossier catalogued a range of other procurement activities, and referred to intelligence that scientists had been recalled to the program in 1998.

Bill Frist

the intelligence committee's progress of the Phase II review of the prewar intelligence and its schedule for completion.

Alexander Downer

We want to keep supporting the Indonesian government, the Indonesian police, the Indonesian intelligence services and, of course, the people of Indonesia,

If you think about all of the infrastructure needed to support that number of people, you start to get a sense of just how vast our intelligence system has become. Think about all the things going on that we don't know about.

Rafik Hariri

I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

I don't know if it's anything to be alarmed about. As long as it's used for intelligence versus harassment, I have no problem with it.

I don't think so. Whatever went on in the minds of Syrian military intelligence officials I really can't speak to.

I like to portray myself as somebody that's likable and approachable. I'm not saying he's not. Bode is very intelligent. He just needs to learn how to use the intelligence in a better way.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Jim DeRogatis

Some say that's a weakness. I say it's a strength, a sign of intelligence.

It produces, probably produces, 80 percent of the intelligence the United States uses, ... The Puzzle Palace.

This is an intelligence loss any way you look at it.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Lewis Mumford

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Thomas a Kempis

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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 Jefferson

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Todd Akin

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

Stephen Hadley

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Don Herold

There is nothing so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have