Intelligence Quotes - Page 24

• Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Instinct, Poor, Dangerous

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• The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Blow, Wind, Mind

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Daughter, Sex, Son

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• Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Fool, Understand Me

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.

  Ken Wilber

  Mean, Self, Doe

  Ken Wilber (2007). “Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.

  Ken Wilber

  Emotional, Two, People

  Ken Wilber (2007). “The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

  Rumi

  Intelligent, Wool, Carpet

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Education, Creativity, Knowledge

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• If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Honesty, Important, Progress

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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• He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Smart, People, Pay

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• I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

  Gene Perret

  Smart, School, Kids

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• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Clever, Cleverness, Sufficient

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Wisdom, Communication

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• We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.

  Jerome Frank

  Men, Promise, Democracy

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• The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

  Aristotle

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.

  Esther Hicks

  Thinking, People, Focus

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• the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Discrepancies Between, Feelings, Intuition

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• Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Honesty, Truth, Government

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• Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

  Mason Cooley

  Isolation, Turns

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• The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Knowledge, Insufficiency

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

  Sherry Turkle

  Sex, Taken, Long

  Sherry Turkle (2005). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, p.285, MIT Press

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• The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

  Dominique Bouhours

  Imagination, Experience, Limitless

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• Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described how he wrote, talked, ate, fidgeted and fumed. His description was, of course, incomplete, since there were notoriously some thoughts which Johnson kept carefully to himself and there must have been many dreams, daydreams and silent babblings which only Johnson could have recorded and only a James Joyce would wish him to have recorded.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Dream, Thinking, Thoughtful

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• The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

  Jose Bergamin

  Life, Thoughtful, Men

  "Head in the Clouds". Book by Jose Bergamin, 1934.

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• Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

  Karl Kraus

  Hair, Sake, Proof

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