Intelligence Quotes - Page 14

• The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

  Frederick Douglass

  Teaching, Intellectual, Mind

  Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books

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• Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Democracies Have, Race, Democracy

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Doe, Malice

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• We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.

  Susan Sontag

  Views, Culture, Innocence

  Salmagundi, No. 31-32, (p. 29), 1975.

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• The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

  Roger Smith

  Teaching, People, Diversity

  U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Humorous

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

  Pema Chodron

  Words Of Wisdom, Reason, Goodness

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Truth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

  Seneca the Younger

  Mediocrity, Helping, Diligence

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• Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Education, Hate, Humor

  Attributed without source in "Message Passing Server Internals" by Bill Blunden, (p. 15), 2003.

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• You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, Bird, Intellectual

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• It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  World, Incredibles, Nonsense

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• It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.

  Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  Education, Children, School

  Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1998). “The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist”, p.3, Island Press

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• If the horse you're drawing looks more like a dog, make it a dog.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Dog, Horse, Drawing

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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  Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

  Lena Horne

  Inspiring, Work, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Baby, Intellectual

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• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Courage, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.304

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• State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ethics, Morality, States

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.238

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• If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Wisdom, Destiny, Men

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Getting lost teaches you how to read a map.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Intellectual

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• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Gulls, Ghost, Familiar

  Sonnet 86

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