#intelligence

Ka was the essence of teh person: spirit, intelligence, feelings and passions, humor, grudges, annoying television theme songs, all the things that make a person a person and not a nematode. ↗

— Mary Roach

#intelligence

Alfred," Merryweather said. "OIPEP is the only organization of its kind in the world, with practically unlimited resources and an intelligence network that spans every country in the planet. We shall do what any powerful, multinational bureaucracy would do in such a crisis. We shall hold a meeting! ↗

— Rick Yancey

#solutions #intelligence

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#iq #nerd #nerdery #nerds #truths

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires ↗

— Tobsha Learner

#intelligence #politics #intelligence

You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#intelligence

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion. ↗

— Nancy Kress

#self-reliance #success #intelligence

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it! ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#humor #intelligence #smart-women #women #intelligence

Listening and observing with your undivided attention are the most easily accessible and cheapest forms of useful intelligence. ↗

— Melody Boates

#intelligence

Our representation of the standard criminal might be based on the properties of those less intelligent ones who were caught. ↗

— Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#intelligence

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#argument #arrogance #intelligence #intelligence