#intel

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world. ↗

— Carl Levin

#credibility #damaged #failures #intelligence #iraq

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers. ↗

— Maimonides

#applicable #between #considerable #difference #faculties

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#beverage #coarse #favorite #intellectual #naturally

I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president. ↗

— William McKinley

#doubt #enough #i #intelligently #made

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#imagination #intelligence #love is #over #triumph

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#had #i #intellectual #interest #naturally

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression. ↗

— Joseph Jarman

#expression #here #human #illusion #intellectualism

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#culture #definition #i #i think #intellectuals

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#dozen #honest #hundred #intelligent #know