#intelligence

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

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#becomes #heart #his #man #only

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#intellectuals #me #sentimental #too

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#humor #i #intelligence #sense #sense of humor

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

People are smarter than you might think. ↗

— John Astin

#might #people #smarter #than #think

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#intelligence #philosophers #poets #sense

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#affected #degree #high #high degree #independence

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#corporate #corporate world #everyone #i #intelligence

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#clout #commission #control #decisions #developing

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