252 quotes found
“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.”
“If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedent...”
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”
“I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on ...”
“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
“I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jump...”
“Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence.”
“The intelligent talk and the wise listen.”
“I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.”
“Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.”
“The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.”
“I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.”
“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
“The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.”
“To the good listener half a word is enough.”
“Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.”
“Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.”
“Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person therefore is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He ...”
“Think about when a digital business marries up with what I'll call 'digital intelligence.' It is the dawn of a new era about being a 'cognitive' business. When every product, every service, how you...”
“I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.”
