Sherman Kent Quotes

• Estimating is what you do when you don't know.

  Sherman Kent

  Estimating, Planning, Management

  "Estimates and Influence," Foreign Service Journal (April 1969).

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• I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

  Sherman Kent

  Exercise, Wish, One Day

  Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”

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