The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Where the stakes are the highest in the war on terror we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing planning and collaborative enforcement.

Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise everything else is a matter of degrees.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

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.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.