#intelligence

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. ↗

— Gracie Allen

#class #family #five #i #runs

I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency. ↗

— James R. Bath

#am #any #cia #i #i am

Cats are cats . . . the world over! These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach us something. -James Mackintosh Qwilleran ↗

— Lilian Jackson Braun

#intelligence

Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#nihilistic #truth #intelligence

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#games #intelligence #talent #teamwork #wins

Barrons was powerful, broodingly good-looking, insanely wealthy, frighteningly intelligent, and had exquisite taste, not to mention a hard body that emitted some kind of constant low-level charge. Bottom line: He was the stuff of heroes. And psychotic killers. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#intelligence

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#intelligence

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#evolution #intelligence #thought #intelligence

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#friends #self-esteem #intelligence

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy