The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.
You don't have to be a genius when you're surrounded by morons.
Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science.
Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?
Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.
Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled from one center. There are many forces that work in parallel: the military, the intelligence service, the Revolutionary Guard, the clergy and the government. They all share a fear of the nation's youth.
A mind too active is no mind at all.
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.