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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

The Clinton White House today said they would start to give national security and intelligence briefings to George Bush. I do not know how well this is working out. Today after the first one Bush said, I have got one question: What color is the red phone?"

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it is the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false intelligence and selected leaks.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

My dad used to say, Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it Does not influence your intelligence.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.