#intelligence

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And so, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#intelligence #women #beauty

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#just #other #people #smarter #tell

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#any #based #common #common sense #great

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#demonstration #dramatic #experienced #failure #history

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#else #fascists #hate #intelligence #which

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#across #added #arrived #began #both

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#democratic #dependent #having #intelligence #issue

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#coast #coast guard #department #done #elements

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#cat #does #instinct #intelligence #reason