I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to find a reason not to go out every evening. I need someone that'll help me think of someone… — Drake Copy Share Image
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
There are geniuses in trade as well as in war, or the state, or letters; and the reason why this or that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“When experts and the public disagree on their priorities, he says, “Each side must respect the insights and intelligence of the other.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“I suppose your evaluation of his intelligence is just right.” “Such a Goldilocks line. Makes me feel so…ursine.” “Why can’t you just… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The Transformation of the World is lavishly reinforced with critical apparatus (that, too, must have been a labor of Hercules to translate--I… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
“When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I believe everything the echo chamber tells me because, well, heck, I'm just not that smart.” — Groundoggy Copy Share Image
As Meander says, "For our mind is God;" and as Heraclitus, "Man's genius is a deity." — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“The reason you can accomplish something is because you already had it within you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“A masterpiece is created when skills and intelligence blend together. ” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“We should change the name of AR-15s to 'Marco Rubio' because they are so easy to buy” — Sarah Chadwick Copy Share Image
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers. — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless. — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
We're the geniuses of the house because only a person intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it? — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it. — Cynthia Lewis Copy Share Image
“...no genius, I am a girl who knows too much to know anything at all...” — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image