For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
It's perfectly legal to be a smart ass at times but some people just take advantage of it... — Meryannn Ulrick Copy Share Image
Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character. — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I would ensure that all intelligence is collected analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political… — John Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end,… — Marsha Johnson Evans Copy Share Image
Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
We have more than enough deodorised, over-the-top, sentimental cinema. Let's try to bring a little human intelligence into things. It can be… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
First, you have to be intelligent. I have never met a successful director who isn't intelligent. A director who is not intelligent… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
It's possible that there is a guiding intelligence in our universe. I don't see a lot of personal evidence for an interventionist-on-an-individual-basis-deity.… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“Reciprocity styles offer a powerful lens for explaining why some people flourish in teams while others fail. In Multipliers, former Oracle executive… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image