I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
Margaret J. Wheatley

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

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
Simone Weil

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
Karl Von Clausewitz

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffler

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Daniel Goleman

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.
Daniel Goleman

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
Daniel Goleman

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Honore De Balzac