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I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.
Stephen Hawking
So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.
Robert Mueller
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.
Tony Goldwyn
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
Ferdinand Mount
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
Socrates
The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is great cleverness to know how to conceal our cleverness.
Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work - the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside - the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within - that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick - the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed. Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation - the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=1640
F. Scott Fitzgerald, essay: The
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are
It is little that one gains by cleverness.
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
