#intelligence

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#center #intelligence #new #skill #successfully

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#assume #attacked #because #community #counterterrorism

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#assimilation #avoid #essential #intelligence #prompt

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#intelligence #lack #meaning #universe #without

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ↗

— Huston Smith

#comes #constitutes #continue #everything #extend

For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#education #elsewhere #fit #guy #i

The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#benefits #class #co-operative #employer #enjoy

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#any #benefits #capacity #each #full

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #any #been #coming #conviction

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. ↗

— John Sterling

#instinct #intelligence #self-consciousness