#intelligence

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#balance #faculties #fundamental #genius #health

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#best-educated #brain #dealing #dressed #generation

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles. ↗

— Gregory F. Treverton

#politics #age

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#cynicism #intellectual #intelligence #substitute