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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White
Bravery Grace Intelligence Mercy Quality Sense
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
George H. Mead
Intelligence Life Self
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
Contrast Intelligence
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I’m really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
Jane Harman
Being Committee Congress Democrats Intelligence Play Successful Tomorrow Will
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry B. Adams
Faith Intelligence Man
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Intelligence War
If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Arlen Specter
Assertiveness Country Defense Independence Intelligence Play Time
I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.
Jim Ramstad
Intelligence Support
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Courage Government Intelligence Popular Press Public Right Virtue
I’m much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet.
Michael Scheuer
Intelligence Nature Osama bin laden
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
Pierre Laval
Germany Intelligence Policy
In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.
Paul Harris
Ignorance Intelligence
We now witness the constructive work on a foundation that will endure through the ages. That foundation is the god of science – revealed to us in terms that will harmonize with our intelligence.
John Fiske
God Intelligence Now Science Will Work
One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn’t attacked us, it’s because he can’t or because we’ve defeated him.
Michael Scheuer
American Community Intelligence
These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.
Paul Cellucci
Intelligence Law states United
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult – often impossible – for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.
Robert Mueller
Act Information Intelligence
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun Tzu
Army Intelligence Results Will
Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
Annie Jump Cannon
Creation Intelligence Man Nature Power Teaching Unity
Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci
Intelligence Science
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Growth Intelligence Nature Pain Suffering
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
Cartoons Intelligence Lie People Work
The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We’re turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.
Warren Christopher
Country Information Intelligence states United War World
Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?
Peter Schuyler
Intelligence Right
Art owes its origin to Nature herself… this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
Animals Art Creation First God Intelligence May Nature World
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy de Gourmont
Intelligence Man Stupidity
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It’s great. The problem is there’s a million dots at the time.
Louis Freeh
Fire Hindsight Information Intelligence Time Trying Water
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Sri Aurobindo
Europe Intelligence Man Now Power
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
Herbert Read
Being Intelligence Living Reason Right Society
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Intelligence Wealth
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown
Common sense Intelligence Success
Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
Tim Robbins
Actors Behavior Heart Intelligence Open People
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
Huston Smith
God Intelligence Mind Reflection
Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation’s immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.
Chris Chocola
Defense Intelligence Legislation Nation Needs Now Post World
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
Games Intelligence Talent Teamwork
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
Contradiction Intelligence Military
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
Mitt Romney
Building Defense Intelligence Military Security Will
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore
Appreciation Deep Intelligence Mystery Wisdom
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh
Courage God Intelligence Men Miracles
An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer
Courage Government Intelligence Popular Press Public Right Virtue
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw
Intelligence
We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.
Bob Graham
Intelligence Investment
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters
Intelligence People
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Paul Claudel
Delight Intelligence Nothing
I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.
Jim Lehrer
American Faith Intelligence
The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.
Adam Schiff
Intelligence Will
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin
Censure Character Criticism Intelligence Knowledge Respect Right
I don’t intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
Harold Pinter
Intelligence Right
I want to exude strength and intelligence.
Portia de Rossi
Intelligence Strength Want
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.
John Bruton
Intelligence Terrorism
I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.
Jim Ramstad
Intelligence Support
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