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Robert Jervis

All too often… intelligence estimates tell us more about interests and foreign policy preferences of powerful groups in government than it does about the other side’s intentions and capabilities are.

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Ronald Lewin, fully George Ronald Lewin

The practical value of intelligence depends on the attitude of mind of its recipients.

Intelligence | Mind | Value |

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Ronald Lewin, fully George Ronald Lewin

In terms of… intelligence operations, noise is the buzz set up by competing information signals which prevents the essential message from being heard loud and clear.

Intelligence | Noise |

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Charles Edward Merriam

The future belongs to those who fuse intelligence with faith, and who with courage and determination grope their way forward from chance to choice, from blind adaptation to creative evolution.

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Flower A. Newhouse

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

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We have not so much the privilege of intelligence, viewed as something above and against nonhuman nature, but the responsibility and necessity to convert our intelligence to the earth. We need to learn how to use intelligence to mend the distortions we have created and how to convert intelligence into an instrument that can cultivate the harmonies and balances of the ecological community and bring these to a refinement.

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Art happens - no hovel is safe from it, no prince can depend on it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Art | Intelligence | Safe |

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Winston Churchill, fully Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Effort | Intelligence | Strength |

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Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Contrast | Intelligence | Child |

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Alexis Carrel

The organs are correlated by the organic fluids and the nervous system. Each element of the body adjusts itself to the others, and the others to it. This mode of adaptation is essentially teleological. If we attribute to tissues an intelligence of the same kind as ours, as mechanists and vitalists do, the physiological processes appear to associate together in view of the end to be attained. The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, and the future as well as the present.

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Alexis Carrel

Married love is a creative enterprise. It is not achieved by accident or instinct. Perfunctory coitus is a confession of lack of intelligence and character. There is a profound beauty and even holiness in the act of fecundation.

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Alexis Carrel

If we attribute an intelligence of the same kind as ours, as mechanists and vitalists do, the physiological processes appear to associate together in view of the end to be attained. The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, the future as well as the present.

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Alfred North Whitehead

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hardheaded clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions.

Ideas | Intelligence | Study | Superstition |

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