Intelligence Quotes - Page 31

• Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

  Cyril Connolly

  Revenge, Intellectual, Genius

  Cyril Connolly (1975). “The evening colonnade”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Believe, Character

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Sage, Century

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• Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Effort, Forever, Mind

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• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wisdom, Tree

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• It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Appreciation, Mind, Mark

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.46

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• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Technology, Invention

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  Jackie Chan

  Hurt, Smart, Distance

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• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Support, Intuition, Use

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• They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

  Thomas Reed

  Life, Sarcastic, Teaching

  "Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?" by Rich Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.

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• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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• Mystery is not profoundness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Literature, Mystery

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Laozi

  Nature, Educational, Taoism

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• Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Power

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• Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

  Mason Cooley

  Fright, Predatory

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• The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

  Albert J. Nock

  Inspirational, Learning, Parenting

  Harper's Magazine, Vol. 154, (p. 730), 1927.

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• they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

  e. e. cummings

  Education, Believe, Christ

  "Sonnets - Realities" no. 1, l. 5 (1923)

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• The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, Life, Business

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• I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Believe, People, Tragedy

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My life and some letters”

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• It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

  George Eliot

  Men, Intellectual, Beam

  George Eliot (2016). “Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

  John Bunyan

  Cities, Stupidity, Degrees

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.571, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Wisdom, Sage, Treasure

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Real, Creativity

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Failure

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• I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

  Alice James

  Education, Stupid, Humorous

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