Intelligence Quotes - Page 13

• It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life Changing, Crime And Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.235, Vintage

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• Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.28

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Ignorance

  Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

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• A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Math, Taught, Assumption

  Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 23-24, (p. 161), 1949.

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, Philosophy, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

  Robert Moses

  Long, Intellectual, Prodigies

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  Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Literature, Used

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• Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable.

  Chris French

  Eyewitnesses, Testimony, Unreliable

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• Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.

  Mae West

  Love, Women, Smart

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced by warm-heartedness can be very constructive. In this context we need to appreciate the value of having moral principles.

  Dalai Lama

  Appreciate, Principles, Needs

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• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Practice, Tasks

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• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Animal, Opportunity

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• Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Smart, Humility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 31, 2013

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• We need a sense of the oneness of the 7 billion human beings alive today. When I meet people, I don't think about being different from them, about being Tibetan, Buddhist or even the Dalai Lama. I only think about being a human being. We all share the potential for positive and negative emotions, yet one of our special qualities is our human mind, our intelligence. If we use it well we'll be successful and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Successful, Thinking

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• Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dark, Use, Waiting For Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.17, Faber & Faber

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• I teach kids how to be rich by the time they are age 40, 35 if they are extra bright. Most kids think they are extra bright, so they go for 35.

  Jim Rohn

  Kids, Thinking, Age

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 04, 2012

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• The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

  Paul Hawken

  Inspiring, Future, Intelligent

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• I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, War, Book

  "Sorry, But Speed Reading Won't Help You Read More" by Mark Seidenberg, www.wired.com. January 24, 2017.

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• Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

  Samuel Tuke

  Thinking, Skills, Intellectual

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• Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Men, Events

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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