#intelligence

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#become #decisions #intelligence #made #many

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. ↗

— Washington Irving

#beauty #been #charms #deficient #divinity

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#answers #being #creates #intellectual #lot

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#get #hot #i #intelligence #more

There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way. ↗

— Joel Kinnaman

#brain #creature #finding #human #human body

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#being #conceded #creatures #earth #earthly

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brain #feel #good #joyous #like

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#ah #i #intelligent #keep #know

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#her #i #idea #intelligence #mother

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#curse #fly #god #heaven #ignorance