I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as we relate with our underlying primordial intelligence and as long as we push ourselves a little, by jumping into… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“One may have knowledge of every subject in the world, but egotistic knowledge goes into intellect, and non-egotistic knowledge goes into Gnan… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally… — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result… — Moses Harvey Copy Share Image
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
As a father, small businessman, Navy intelligence veteran, and co-founder of a public charter school, I'm ready to bring common-sense solutions to… — Ryan Frazier Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I collected speech from so called "Smart", "Genius" nation... the judge is going to be made from you... ... Don't worry "Notes… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“The burden of genius is not the labor of our endeavors but in sharing the world with fools who don't know they… — Nathan Yocum Copy Share Image
People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
We know growing technological developments in artificial intelligence, automation and big data mean that democratic socialism in the 21st century must adapt… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“People believe there is no difference between intelligence and smartness. I beg to differ – I’ve met many intelligent cretins in my… — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make… — Greg Camp Copy Share Image
The most advanced, creative and original thinking is always a product of historical context and the influences of previous geniuses, mentors, and… — Michael J. Gelb Copy Share Image
Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
“Take off the wings, and put him in breeches, and crows make fair average men. Give men wings, and reduce their smartness… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
“You thought?" The landsknecht glanced at him piteously. "With what, I wonder? If you swallowed a cockroach with your soap, dolt, you'd… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“By spending time with a Gnani Purush (One who has realized the Self and is able to do the same for others), the wrong intellect… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. Like a rider on the back of an elephant, the conscious reasoning part… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There is a reason that we are still friends through everything we have both been through. Have you ever wondered why? That… — Robert Boughter Copy Share Image
I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause… — W. L. George Copy Share Image
“You hit me again," I said, growing oddly annoyed. "Ya think?" Evil Riggs said. Smart-ass. "Part of my brain hurts. I demand… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
