"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Intelligence More From Ambrose Bierce "Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization." "Liberty: One of Imagination’s most precious possessions." "Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery." More In Intelligence "This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody’s been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq."― Bob Graham "She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence."― Sri Aurobindo "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."― Arnold J. Toynbee