Quotes About Intelligence

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

To begin by bluster, but afterwards to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.

During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

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.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.