"intelligence without ambition I a big bird without wings" -Salvador Dali. This means that without ambition intelligence is useless. this is true  because ambition is how you reach your goals in life and without it we wouldn't get anything done. this can be clearly seen in THE CRADLE WILL FALL by Marry Higgins Clark where the main character Katie DeMaio is trying to salve a suicide case as murder. ambition is important to reach goals, intelligence is  useless without it, and the book  I'm reading talks about ambition and how Katie is ambushes to solve the case.