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.'

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

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior but then anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?'

I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work yet getting the work done.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her without reserve she lends them to us she shows us these forms which our watching eyes do not see which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.