A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. — William James Copy Share Image
“Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I don't know what 'genius' even means. It's just a matter of keeping your eye on the ball. — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason. — Mike Comrie Copy Share Image
“A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.” — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
“how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.” — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. — John Powell Copy Share Image
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing. — Chris Argyris Copy Share Image
A lot has changed since I first arrived at CIA, but our mission remains as relevant and important as ever. And this… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Multipliers increase intelligence in people and in organizations. People actually get smarter and more capable around them.” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
“It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person.… — Sarah Dooley Copy Share Image
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
The CIA has transformed from an organization created to recruit spies to steal secrets, into a paramilitary organization, a paramilitary force. It's… — John Kiriakou Copy Share Image
“A novelist's job is almost to be a stupid as possible, except in the cunning moment when you need to structure something,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“Use intelligence for your opponents, shrewdness for your enemies, commonsense for your acquaintances, and resourcefulness for your friends. When your opponents are… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough… — George Tenet Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last. — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
That no matter how smart you thought you were, you are actually way less smart than that. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
“Hang together, or hang separately. Benjamin Franklin is a genius.” — Renay Williams Copy Share Image
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it. — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people. — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination. — Cardinalde Bernis Copy Share Image
“So there’s never a reason to be afraid of running out of time — because we keep our own.” — Rachel Van Dyken Copy Share Image