When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any… — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
No matter how smart you are, the matters of the heart will always make you dumb. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
Reason is mechanical, wit chemical, and genius organic spirit. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence. — William Hogarth Copy Share Image
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Never does any pride enter the heart of a man except that his intelligence decreases by the same amount. — Muhammad al-Baqir Copy Share Image
It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so… — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the airport; will-power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.” — Gregory F. Treverton Copy Share Image
It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge liberates us from the frustration of ignorance, while simultaneously nurturing and supporting our capacity for intelligence. Objectivity” — Charles Hayes Copy Share Image
“A reason or a purpose is a combination of "wants" and "don't wants".” — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed how many adjectives you have to describe your intellect?” “Not nearly enough. The dictionary should have more words… — Ruby Lionsdrake Copy Share Image
“Shabelsky: O mind of genius, you think up things for everyone and teach everyone, but why not for once teach me... Teach… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“You're familiar with the theory of evolution?" asked Cabal. "Sir?" "They're about to find out why intelligence is a survival trait.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to… — Franklin Edgerton Copy Share Image
Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence. — Thomas Smith Copy Share Image
“For geniuses, they are really dumb,” she said. “Some of them are really pampered: They can’t even put together a cardboard box.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? — James K. A. Smith Copy Share Image
