Intelligence Quotes - Page 29

• When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

  Pindar

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Views, Ends

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• Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

  Heraclitus

  Wisdom, Men, Should

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• Life is a festival only to the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, North Atlantic Books

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• A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning the main aim of his life.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4240, Delphi Classics

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• He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

  John Locke

  Wisdom, Ordinary, Would Be

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.461

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• Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fool, Poor, Wit

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• Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

  Henri Bergson

  Wisdom, Science, Natural

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• Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.

  Vera Nazarian

  Taken, Cat, Compassion

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• Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.337, Running Press

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• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

  Hal Borland

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Class, Lunch, Remember You

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• The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Peace, Military

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.373, Princeton University Press

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• It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Fashion, Style

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

  Roger Kimball

  Fire, Moral, Virtue

  Roger Kimball (2002). “Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse”, Ivan R Dee

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• A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

  James Agee

  Girl, Brain, Way

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• Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, Government, Law

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• If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

  James Moore

  Doe, Power Corrupts, Knowledge Is Power

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Intelligent, Lap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stupid, People, Dull

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.127

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• Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

  James Whistler

  Art, May, Safe

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Wisdom, Parent, Love Wisdom

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.103

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• The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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