Intelligence Quotes - Page 27

• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.

  Bertrand Russell

  Clever, Stupid, Men

  "New Hopes for a Changing World". Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1951.

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Inspiration, Intelligent

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• I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Imagination, Facts

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

  John Constable

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

  Henry George Bohn

  Brain, Too Much, Action

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.334

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• There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Maxims and Considerations". Book by E. P. Mathers, 1926.

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• It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

  Charles Simmons

  Intellectual, Useless, Becoming

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• A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

  Malcolm Knowles

  Party, Principles, Systems Theory

  Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1984). “The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species”, Gulf Publishing Company

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• We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

  Jean Houston

  Knowing, Democracy, Sitting

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• Democracy is self-creating coherence.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Creating, Self, Democracy

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Teaching, Imagination

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Support, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.59, Routledge

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• Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wisdom, Men, Two

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.182

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• It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

  Harold Prince

  Class, Guy, Hustle

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• Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

  William Feather

  Brain, Important

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• The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Brain, Way, Management

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• The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Doe, Use, Soil

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• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  Fannie Hurst

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

  Horace Mann

  Weed, Men, Hands

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• There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Underestimate

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• People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

  Moliere

  People, Quality, Literature

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.27, Penguin

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• Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

  James Cash Penney

  Running, Jobs, Giving

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