#intelligence

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#almost #any #depends #does #drive

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#come #faith #four #great #great faith

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I don't know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, 'I've got one question: What color is the red phone?' ↗

— Bill Maher

#briefings #bush #clinton #color #first

When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old man's, I felt that I wanted to read it as a preparation for what's about to happen to us all. I understand where the brawny part of my father and I come from - Bill. I'm not saying bill's not smart, but my old man is a pretty intelligent guy and that kind of intellect came from tome Finch. I want to turn the pages he turned. But honestly I'm actually finding it hard. I think that the whole world has lied and nobody has read the book completely. It's a conspiracy up there with Roswell. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#location- #intelligence

So this general with the background in intelligence who is supposed to conquer Afghanistan can't even figure out what Rolling Stone is? We're not talking Guns & Ammo here; we're talking the antiwar hippie magazine. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#intelligence

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#becomes #heart #his #man #only

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#beside #bodies #children #creation #elemental

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#affected #degree #high #high degree #independence

At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second rate, by no degree of effort or assiduity to be made the equal of abilities like Bonbright's. ↗

— James Gould Cozzens

#equality

Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none. ↗

— Claude Chabrol

#infinitely #intelligence #limits #more #none