"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence." ― George Woodcock Topic(s): Intelligence More In Intelligence "I think there’s a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don’t have to think about it."― Clyde Tombaugh "As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise."― George Tenet "The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."― George Bancroft