Sherman Kent Quotes:

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

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

Topics: Estimating, Planning

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.

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

Topics: Exercise, One Day, Wish, Three Wishes