Quotes About Intelligence

Theremin's mentor, Soviet physicist Abram Ioffe, was reporting to Stalin with information leeched from the Manhattan Project, espionage that helped the Russians birth their own atomic bomb by 1949—an effort Theremin was likely involved in. Bob had no clue that Theremin had concocted elaborate bugging devices to spy on Western powers, or that he was still working for the other side in the Cold War, deeply entrenched in Soviet intelligence organizations

With no objective support whatsoever, Narcissistic Legends see themselves as more talented and intelligent than other people. They are expert in finding small ponds that will let them be big fish, and extorting Narcissistic supplies from people whose need to be needed is as great as their vampiric need to be adored.

A dog is only a dog. But a collie is – a collie. Says the scotch proverb: "A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman!

Thus there is an Absolute, in the matters of Intelligence and of Faith. The Supreme Reason has not left the gleams of the human understanding to vacillate by hazard. There is an incontestable verity, there is an infallible method of knowing this verity, and by the knowledge of it, those who accept it as a rule may give their will a sovereign power that will make them masters of inferior things and of all errant spirits that is to say, will make them the Arbiters and Kings of the World.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?

Demuestre que usted es un autor «inteligente»; en esa forma nadie sabrá que es inteligente de verdad, cosa peligrosísima. Téngalo en cuenta: muchas personas leen solamente los títulos. Después compran la obra y la archivan en sus bibliotecas per sécula. Si no se esmera, perderá el treinta y cinco por ciento de los lectores.

P?rea s?-l considere tot mai mult pe Sergio un soi de pierde-var? din categoria trist? È™i inert?, un intelectual adic?, iar de data asta Sergio nu putea spune c? nu are dreptate, era într-adev?r un intelectual din cea mai rea spe??, credea, un om a c?rui inteligen?? nu avea nimic creativ, nici util, ci servea doar ca s?-l îmboln?veasc? È™i s?-l paralizeze ca o otrav? rafinat?.

Y además es tonto, y eso le hace aún más peligroso, porque siempre puedes prever cómo va a reaccionar un canalla, pero no un estúpido.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

If stupid people didn't insist on thinking they were smart, the world would be a lot simpler.

Be subtle. Use your spies for every kind of business. —SUN TZU, The Art of War

George Washington, the first president of the United States, mastered geometry, trigonometry, and surveying at about the age of twelve, though folks in his day did not consider him particularly bright.

The more you drive the less intelligent you are.

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn't be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.

But Adrian, sometimes it's nice to let her be smart too.

Surface beauty...is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see.