“...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age…” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth. — Wendell Phillips 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 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
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe that the way someone speaks and acts tells their story. You can read a person from cover to cover upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Great thinkers and geniuses are good listeners, but many are not gifted with excellent communicative speech.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“That’s so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To me, a 51 percenter has five core emotional skills. I’ve learned that we need to hire employees with these skills if… — Danny Meyer Copy Share Image
We know that, immediately after 9/11, the CIA set up a program to collaborate with 80 foreign countries to varying degrees. The… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only… — Lev Vygotsky Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“He was a young man of savage & unexpected originality, a diseased genius & quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how each of us gets… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise. — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Your ideas and the things that you do are dumb and stupid and make no sense - until you start getting recognized… — GloZell Copy Share Image
“Unlike ordinary feelings, the feeling of reason and the feeling of respect do not have a sensible cause; their cause is reason… — Alix Cohen Copy Share Image
A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place. — Samuel Copy Share Image
“Humans are in danger of losing their economic value because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and… — Bhim Rao Ambedkar Copy Share Image
Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction. — Abraham Lincoln 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 ability to focus attnetion on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence."---Irrational Exuberance” — Robert J. Shiller 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
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
A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for,… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan… — Doc Hastings Copy Share Image
Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The spark of a genius exists in the brain of the truly creative man from the hour of his birth. True genius… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls… — India Arie Copy Share Image
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image