“Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.”– Clifford D. Simak Related Quotes “The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We’ll tell you, you don’t have to drag it out of us.”– George Tenet “In my professional work with the Agency, by the late ’70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency’s impact on American policy.”– Aldrich Ames “Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.”– Gracie Allen