Intelligence Quotes - Page 20

• Who are a little wise the best fools be.

  John Donne

  Wise, Intellectual, Littles

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

  James Randi

  Smart, People, Looks

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• It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Smart, Bigs

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “In Her Day”, p.100, Bantam

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• Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great intelligence. Only the intelligent ones feel confusion; otherwise the mediocres go on moving in life, smiling, laughing, accumulating money, struggling for more power and fame. If you see them you will feel a little jealous; they look so confident, they even look happy.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Moving, Jealous

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• Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Mind, Disappear

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• The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Intelligent, Support

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• If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligent, Meditation, Mind

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• The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Business, Ambition

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  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Wisdom

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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• Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

  Bertrand Russell

  May, Courses

  Attributed in "The Times book of quotations" by Philip Howard, (p. 84), 2000.

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Senior, Witty

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• Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Aggravation, Humans

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• He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Inspirational, People, Mouths

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• A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

  Kevin Kelly

  Smart, Thinking, Simple

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• Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Education, Teacher, School

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

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• The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Inspirational, Focus, Important

  Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Errors, Mathematical Logic

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

  Lauren Hutton

  Book, Ideas, Two

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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Isaac Asimov (1984). “Asimov's New guide to science”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Knowledge, Mysterious

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

  Edward Albee

  Truth, Writing, Reality

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.48, Da Capo Press

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• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Genius

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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