Quotes About Intelligence

A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war.

All war is based on deception.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

The secret of war lies in the communications.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

Agitate him and ascertain the pattern of his movement.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?

The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.

Success in warfare is gained by carefully accommodating ourselves to the enemy's purpose.

Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

All war is deception.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.