Quotes About Intelligence

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

There was analysis dating back years that demonstrated Saddam had no such arsenal. Yet even though it was his group that handled Iraq, it hadn't been asked for input on

The CIA had no doubt that the weapons were there, while the Pentagon was unsure whether the capacity to make them even existed. It was as if the intelligence analysts were saying that they were confident that Saddam's wife was ready to give birth, but remained uncertain if she was pregnant.

Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

Der Vorteil der Klugheit besteht darin, daß man sich dumm stellen kann. Das Gegenteil ist schon schwieriger.

Wenn du so lang wärst, wie du dumm bist, könntst du aus der Dachrinne saufen.

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

Turner was a lousy fighter, an inept swordsman, and most of the people he tried to kill didn't die by his hand. His sole strength was his superior brain. He became a leader of men because he had developed his mind by reading, which happened to be illegal. Coincidence?

But they were masters of the mind game.

MITCH Rapp gave a quick knock on the Oval Office door and then entered.

That CIA bitch had an almost supernatural ability to ask the right questions.

CIA HEADQUARTERS LANGLEY, VIRGINIA USA

Jordi Cardenas, the head of Spain's national intelligence agency, held out a hand and Rapp took it.

We may be the intelligent species, but we are certainly not the smartest!

unless you've got a thing for women with stratospheric IQ's and abysmal taste in men. It'd taken her a long time to recognize that she consistently chose males who didn't see her only their own reflection in her. Once she figured that out she started to regain a measure of her self respect..

The CIA also maintains countless paramilitary and pseudobusiness organizations that weave in and out of legitimacy and do business much as their civilian counterparts would.

The CIA uses its intelligence role as a cover mechanism for its operational activities. Furthermore it uses its own secret intelligence as an initiator for its own secret operations.

President Truman planned for the CIA to be the "quiet intelligence arm of the President." He and those of his Administration never intended that it become an autonomous operational agency in the clandestine field.

Most ambassadors would be surprised to learn that some of the staff messages that are proposed to them for authorization to transmit were received from the ST almost verbatim in the form which his "staff " have given him to send back to Washington. This is a useful device for the ST because it gets a message of unquestioned authority from the ambassador into the Department of State and usually into Defense via attach channels.

They can use the finest intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they are able to operate under the canopy of an ever-present "enemy" called "Communism." And then, to top all of this, there is the fact that the CIA has assumed the right to generate and direct secret operations.

The man who has not lived in the secrecy and intelligence environment—really lived in it and fully experienced it—cannot write accurately about it. There is no substitute for the day to day living of a life in which he tells his best friends and acquaintances, his family and his everyday contacts one story while he lives another.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb