#intel

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#body #company #especially #flesh #forms

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#college #cover #graduate #his #intellectual

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cynical #doing #excuse #intelligent #intolerable

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#evolution #fashion #history #i #i believe

The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#assuming #bush #central #chief #competitor

You want to keep intelligence separate from policy. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#keep #policy #separate #want #you

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enemies #friends #intellect #looks #beauty

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#always #believe #braver #me #promise