Intelligence Quotes - Page 21

• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Clever, People, Tolerate

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• 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

  John Abbott

  Wise, Education, Knowledge

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

  "The 'Threat' of Creationism". www.nytimes.com. June 14, 1981.

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• We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Education, Smart, Math

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• The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

  John Locke

  Education, Knowledge, Two

  "The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux".

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• When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

  Irwin Corey

  Intellectual, Sells

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• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  House, Golden, Rooms

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.114

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

  Danica McKellar

  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

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• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Statistics

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• My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Education, Morning, Teaching

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• A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

  William Henry Hudson

  Animal, Equality, Men

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith”

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• An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

  Aldous Huxley

  Education, Wisdom, Witty

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• Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

  Aldous Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Cynical

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Mistake, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.71, Penguin

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• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Technology, People

  "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. January 17, 2011.

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• I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Believe, Optimistic

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.46, Prabhat Prakashan

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• To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

  James Roby

  Success, Art, Skills

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• Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Law, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Smart, Taken, Men

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• The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

  Ernst Mach

  Math, Views, Uncomfortable Feeling

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, Atheist, Men

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Civilization

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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