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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Julian Assange on intelligence

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
Brian Eno on intelligence

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis on intelligence

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
Bryant H. McGill on intelligence

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus on intelligence

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova on intelligence

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.
Bryant H. McGill on intelligence

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
Bryant H. McGill on intelligence

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
Tiger Woods on intelligence

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran on intelligence

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett on intelligence

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
Claude Chabrol on intelligence

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.
E. Stanley Jones on intelligence

Intelligence is enormously sexy.
Frank Langella on intelligence

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
John le Carre on intelligence

We have an incredible warrior class in this country - people in law enforcement, intelligence - and I thank God every night we have them standing fast to protect us from the tremendous amount of evil that exists in the world.
Brad Thor on intelligence

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
Walter Lippmann on intelligence

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
Andrea Dworkin on intelligence

The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
Damon Albarn on intelligence

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
Phaedrus on intelligence