#intelligence

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#boy #go #go away #good #i

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#intelligence #life-lessons #funny

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

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#arresting #enough #get #human #human intelligence

The universe is an intelligence test. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#test #universe

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

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#briefing #bush #day #even #every