Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.
The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
He came from a rock band and even though he was not a lead singer, I knew he was musical just from that. I also knew that he was intelligent enough from talking to him, that he would not play this part unless he could handle it vocally. I knew he was not about to get up there and have to have his voice dubbed or come off croaking. So Johnny Depp casted Johnny Depp. I trusted him entirely. I knew that he was no fool and he would only do it if he felt he could handle it. I told him to listen to the score carefully and if you can handle it, fine by me, and I was right.
Daddy always said that an option that you know to have a bad outcome is only a fool's option, i.e., not an option at all. And I liked to think that Daddy hadn't raised a fool.
Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
A great, great decision!
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.
Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world
That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.
I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.
As I have often said, I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super smart!
I have been in the most dangerous of places just in order to survive. An intelligent man would stay in a safe place to survive.
Intelligence is the only moral guide.
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I've nothing against using something to help your beauty - but do it in a good way, with intelligence.
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
