"Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence." ― Ambrose Bierce Topic(s): Intelligence Tags: affected More From Ambrose Bierce "Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage." "Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient." "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." More In Intelligence "Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart."― Henri Frederic Amiel "If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."― Holly Near "We regard intelligence as man’s main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate."― Henri Bergson