The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate.… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Logic, reason, and common sense are your best tools for synthesizing reality and understanding what to do about it.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board. — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
I laugh all the time about our investigation, especially about making a fool of David Duke, who likes to think I don't… — Ron Stallworth Copy Share Image
One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
In our counterterrorism cases and our counterintelligence cases, we can issue all kinds of - of layers of approval in the FBI,… — James Comey Copy Share Image
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“Genius loci cannot be designed to order. It has to evolve, to be allowed to hapen, to grow and change from the… — Edward Relph Copy Share Image
“[Patricia Greenfield] concluded that “every medium develops some cognitive skills at the expense of others.” Our growing use of the Net and… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“1. Seek out the smartest people who disagreed with me so I could try to understand their reasoning. 2. Know when not to have… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius… — William James Copy Share Image
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom up. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize… — Dermot Davis Copy Share Image
“I don't want you to hate me. You have every reason to, I know. But I don't want that to be the… — Abigail Boyd Copy Share Image
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. — George Sand Copy Share Image
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different. — Billy Eckstine Copy Share Image
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
“Nothing in modern attitudes is believed more to signify exceptional intelligence than association with large pools of money. Only immediate experience with… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“I've been called a smart ass many times and given the same response "I'd rather be known as a smart ass than… — Jeffrey Michael Copy Share Image
“Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If you insult my intelligence or character, be prepared to be on the receiving end of the ultimate cold shoulder. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone has a story , & there's a reason for them being the way they're , be careful who you judge , you don't know them — Spido Copy Share Image
The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before,… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image