Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. Charles Evans Hughes appealbroodday Change image and share on social
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. Rebecca West artcamelgreat Change image and share on social
It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. Don Herold ignorantlotprove Change image and share on social
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. Jose Bergamin amountcivilizationdisplace Change image and share on social
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken agentemploygreat share on social
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. David Ignatius abroadexistillegal Change image and share on social
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. Ronald Reagan businessgovernmentmind Change image and share on social
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower intellectualmantake Change image and share on social
We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253. Peter T. King attackblindlybring share on social
Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in. Martin Rees advancebeingcomplex share on social