“Wit is educated insolence.”
Intelligence comes in more flavors than IQ tests can measure. These quotes explore different kinds of smarts — emotional, creative, street, academic — and the humbling realization that the smartest people are usually the ones who know how much they do not know.
“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.”
“Wit is educated insolence.”
“We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.”
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
“God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”
“Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.”
“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
“Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.”
“I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.”
“There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.”
“I want to exude strength and intelligence.”
“Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.”