Intelligence Quotes · Page 342

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

— Burt Rutan

I'm a smart tackler.

— Patrick Chung

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

— Edward Weston

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

— Josh Billings

“Success comes to the nerd with an inner jock, and to the jock with an inner nerd.”

— Criss Jami

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Self-awareness is a trait - or maybe 'practice' is the more accurate way to put it - that everyone can always improve…

— Neil Blumenthal

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

— Hannah More

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from…

— Chris Chocola

“Ellington would be growing up in a culture saturated with an idea you might call the cognitive hypothesis: the belief... that success…

— Paul Tough

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

— Anonymous

A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

— Terry Carr

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of…

— Frank Carlucci

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan.

— Carly Chaikin

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

— Jimmy Page

Rare is he who will concede genius.

— Juana Inés de la Cruz

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works…

— James Madison

“He was my Reason To Breathe”

— Rebecca Donovan

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals…

— Douglas Hofstadter

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its…

— Robert Schumann

It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by…

— Giordano Bruno

I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of…

— Jack Keane

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

— Mary Parker Follett

“What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.”

— Mortimer J. Adler