Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Imagination is more robust in proportion as reasoning power is weak. — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year. — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel Copy Share Image
“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and… — Bhim Rao Ambedkar Copy Share Image
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense - until you start getting recognized… — GloZell Copy Share Image
“Unlike ordinary feelings, the feeling of reason and the feeling of respect do not have a sensible cause; their cause is reason… — Alix Cohen Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
A lot has changed since I first arrived at CIA, but our mission remains as relevant and important as ever. And this… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
As opposed to 'Ek Tha Tiger,' which was a glamourised peek into the world of intelligence agents, Phantom is more real. It… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
If the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies were private companies and were chronically unable to accomplish one of their key missions,… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
“Education, the press, politics, religion—in a word, all the great forces in the world—are at present on the side of irrationality; they… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
