Intelligence Quotes - Page 17

• If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Missing

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• Genius creates, and taste preserves.

  Alexander Pope

  Sublime, Genius, Taste

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• Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Children, Intelligent, Use

  Andrea Dworkin (1983). “Right Wing Women”, Perigee Trade

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• One of the things that Ivar knew about Mrs. Walker was that she would only tell him what she knew if he asked the right question, so he spent a portion of his time meditating over what he might ask Mrs. Walker and how he might phrase the question.

  Jane Smiley

  Intellectual, Might, Phrases

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Achievement

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Mistake, School

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• Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

  J Harlen Bretz

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

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• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  Xenophanes

  Wise, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Xenophanes, James H. Lesher (2001). “Xenophanes of Colophon: Fragments : a Text and Translation with a Commentary”, p.197, University of Toronto Press

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• Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sarcastic, Communication, Silence

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 914,

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Genius

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• Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Simplify

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• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, College, Average

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Character, Intellectual, Inseparable

  "Prophet Of Privacy". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 1, 1994.

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• Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Character

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• A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

  Dick Gregory

  Events, Afros, March

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• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  Raymond Aron

  Errors, Optimism, Intellectual

  Raymond Aron (2017). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.156, Routledge

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• When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.

  Paul Frank Baer

  Brain, Use

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• The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Past, Clothes

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.

  William Faulkner

  Fun, Children, People

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• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

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• We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Memorable, Intelligent

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Intellectual

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• As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Education, Believe, Teaching

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• Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

  James Agee

  Hope, Children, Years

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

  Laozi

  Wisdom

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