Intelligence Quotes - Page 18

• If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Teaching, Assessment

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• A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

  Richard B. Livingston

  Jobs, Teaching, Learning

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• And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

  Jacques Deval

  Wisdom, Intuition, Needs

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• Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

  Eric Lau

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Knowing

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• Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.

  John Pierrakos

  Love, Form, Highest

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• Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Intellectual, Each Day

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• It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Intellectual, Genius

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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• By ignorance the truth is known.

  Henry Suso

  Learning, Ignorance, Intellectual

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intellectual, Tongue, Vipers

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

  Max Barry

  Intelligent, Safety, Brain

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• The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Learning, Intellectual, World

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Definitions, Organs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  Harlan Ellison

  Motivational, Stupid, Ignorance

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• Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Able, Knows

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1231, Xist Publishing

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• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Learning, Intellectual, Ignorant

  "Daniel Boorstin" by Godfrey Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2004.

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• People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

  Gillian Anderson

  Intelligent, People, Perspective

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• What is important to a relationship is a harmony of emotional roles and not too great a disparity in the general level of intelligence.

  Mirra Komarovsky

  Emotional, Personality, Intellectual

  Mirra Komarovsky (2004). “Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas”, p.86, Rowman Altamira

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• Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Intellectual, Genius

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• If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Mean, Intelligent, Mind

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• Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Teaching, Intellectual

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Tools, Faculty, Intellect

  "Creative Evolution" (1907) by Henri Bergson, as quoted in "Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence" by David Kreps, 2015.

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