Intelligence Quotes - Page 19

• You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

  Massad Ayoob

  Ethics, Born

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• When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

  David Letterman

  Sarcastic, Mind, Half

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• If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

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• You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

  Will Rogers

  People, Common Sense, Common

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Tis good-will makes intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intellect, Good Will

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.107, Everyman's Library

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• I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

  Jackie Robinson

  Success, Believe, Past

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• I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

  Leon Spinks

  Education, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intellect, Comparison

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1139, Delphi Classics

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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 varying the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Tools, Faculty

  "Creative Evolution".

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• It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Uncertain, Certainty

  Blaise Pascal (1850). “The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce”, p.99

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, World

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

  Euripides

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Euripides, Rex Warner (1993). “Medea”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Phrases, Becoming

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• A good mind possesses a kingdom.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Mind, Kingdoms

  "Thyestes", Act II. 380 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 513-516), 1922.

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• Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

  Paul Tillich

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Loss, Men

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Wisdom, Silence, Age

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

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• Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Wisdom, Two, Promise

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

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• Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

  Alan Bennett

  Intelligent, People

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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• You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing - memory is not intelligence. But the whole of humanity has been deceived for centuries and told indirectly that the memory is intelligence. Your schools, your colleges, your universities are not trying to find your intelligence; they are trying to find out who is capable of memorizing more. And now we know perfectly well that memory is a mechanical thing. A computer can have memory, but a computer cannot have intelligence.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, School, College

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• It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

  Henry Adams

  Impossible, Humans, Human Intelligence

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson (1989). “1903-1916”

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• The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

  Franklin Edgerton

  Wisdom, Science, Firsts

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• Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure

  Socrates

  Memories, Class, Feelings

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