Genius is, to be sure, not a matter of arbitrariness, but rather of freedom, just as wit, love, and faith, which once… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“As I observe the lives of great individuals, I sense that the capacity of the brain is seemingly infinite. Wise men can… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as genius, and these are people who do not have a formal disability, DSM-IV-type. They may have… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Israel has good reason to be concerned about its intelligence making its way to Moscow: Russia is a major player in the… — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
“ What do you hope girls take away from watching [Agent Carter]? I would hope that young girls can see that they… — Hayley Atwell Copy Share Image
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Stellar Wind blew past the Supreme Court on the authority of a dubious opinion sent to the White House the week that… — Tim Weiner Copy Share Image
“no matter how intelligent, perceptive and gifted you were, no matter how entirely you lived for the ascetic rewards of the intellect… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
What needs to be debated is whether IQ tests, as currently designed, are fit for purpose, and capable of measuring the changing… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our… — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the… — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
“Unlike the laws of reality that scientist describe in complex mathematical equations, the laws that govern human behavior are imprecise and in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it’s not the only factor. But it is something… — Virginia Morell Copy Share Image
My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Our nature is intelligent. In fact, everything is intelligent. Intelligence for me is information. Information is intelligence. And then there is information… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being,… — Truman G. Madsen Copy Share Image
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The utility of information is admitted practically as well as theoretically; without a literate population a modern State is impossible. But the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Genius is the ability to leave entirely out of sight our own interest, our willing, and our aims, and consequently to discard… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Dog-fooding is using your own products so that you understand from inside out what it is you're providing the customers. It's another… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
If we accept that we are all cut from the same genetic cloth, all cultures share the same genius. And whether that… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Everyone on the Left has a favorite story that allows them to kind of excuse Reagan, explain away Reagan, say he was… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think network TV to a large extent has underestimated the intelligence of the American public for so many years now. It's… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
“Shakespeare was not a genius. He was, without the distant shadow of a doubt, the most wonderful writer who ever breathed. But… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
“Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error… — Mary Worley Montagu Copy Share Image