Intelligence Quotes

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics. - Massad Ayoob

You're a person of rare intelligence; it's rare when you show any. - Unknown

Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate. - Unknown

Your intelligence is equivalent to your information and experience. BE CURIOUS! Get your questions answered! - Unknown

Your characterization of it as being a significantly different threat environment, based on what we historically have heard, is absolutely correct... So there certainly is a diminution, reduction in the amount of intelligence, and the decibel level is lower. - Tom Ridge

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes. - David Allen

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. - Lee H. Hamilton

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy. - Bobby Ray Inman

You simply can't take upon yourself the complete responsibility of putting together a bulletproof design, reacting to what are usually pretty aggressive schedule demands. We use consultants on the design side. We use consultants on the program management side. ... There is tremendous value to capturing and preserving the intelligence from consultants. ... It's often difficult to enable a high degree of cooperation between outsource consultants and in-house staff, but you've got to overcome that with human management. - Rick Lamb

You quote an isolated sentence from my lecture, and appear to have some difficulty in understanding it. I should have thought that only a sub-human intelligence could have failed to grasp the point, but if it really needs amplification I shall consent to see you at the hour named . . . - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.