Intelligence Quotes - Page 30

• It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,--and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Men, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1361, e-artnow

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• The thing is - I'm not an idiot. I'm rather intelligent, as proven by the fact that I just used the word 'rather' in a sentence.

  Christian Finnegan

  Intelligent, Facts, Idiot

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• Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

  Epicurus

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doors, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.390, Рипол Классик

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• Education is understanding relationships.

  George Washington Carver

  Educational, Understanding

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• [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Intelligent, Stupidity

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• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

  Edward de Bono

  Marriage, Intelligent, Thinking

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• We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

  Thomas Browne

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15

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• A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

  Anthony Burgess

  Intelligent, Intellectual, May

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Positive Thinking, College

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• intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

  Madame de Stael

  Sin, Intellect

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• The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Women, Brain, Possibility

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• Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

  Aeschylus

  Doctors, Hunger, Excellent

  Aeschylus, (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides”, p.96, A&C Black

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• If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Animal, Matter

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• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

  Tom Stoppard

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Useless Things

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• Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Teaching, Ties, Intellectual

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.124

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• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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• Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Learning, Men, Thinking

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• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

  Albert Camus

  Temptation, Cynicism, Form

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

  Joseph Chenier

  Genius, Taste, Talent

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• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, School, Self Confidence

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• To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

  Richard Leakey

  Arrogance, Would Be, Earth

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• I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

  Bill Ayers

  Learning, Intellectual, Wish

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• You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Imagination, Poetry, Purpose

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