From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be. — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
“The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American middle class. — HL Mencken Copy Share Image
What's the reason for you to stay if you're not the one he needs anyway? — Jessel Jane Zozobrado Copy Share Image
The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do. — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
A smart woman is tactful, she know's how to get info without asking questions and she can prove her point without arguing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason why we hold onto something so tight is because we fear something so great won't happen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At least in the U.S., the party you believe in plays a big role in how you conceive of yourself. It feels… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Some may wonder whether part of the harvest of this invisible pollution (electromagnetic radiation) may be the comparative rarity of visionary experience… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Robert Sternberg is a professor of psychology at Tufts University and a past president of the American Psychological Association. He is a… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S.… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
