Intelligence Quotes - Page 34

• God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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• Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

  Lynsay Sands

  Stupid, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  "János: The Story of a Doctor". Book by János Plesch, 1947.

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• At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

  Virginia Postrel

  Inspirational, People, Levels

  Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.23, e-artnow

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• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Lasts, Belief

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.41, Broadway Books

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• Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

  Alfie Kohn

  Education, People, Rewards

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.

  Alan Kay

  Education, Teacher, Couple

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• Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
  Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces.

  Octavia Butler

  Mean, Civilization, Ongoing

  Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, Funny Relationship, Men

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

  Karl Brandt

  Men, Brain, Natural

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• The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

  Robert Southey

  Progress, Ruins, Violence

  Robert Southey (1829). “Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the progress and prospects of society”, p.361

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• The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

  Edwin Chadwick

  Sight, Looks, Sun

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• If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

  Daniel Goleman

  Smart, Emotional, Self

  "The Weeping, the Window, the Way: Will Suffering Make You Bitter Or Better?". Book by John O. Dozier, 2010.

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• The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Smart, Cookies

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• It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

  Agnes Repplier

  Race, Depravity, Humans

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, Life Changing, Mean

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fate, Intelligent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1859). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: The conduct of life”, p.23

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• Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

  Thornton Wilder

  Favors, Conditions, Cease

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• If you would take, you must first give.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Giving, Firsts

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• Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.

  Scott Simon

  Intelligent, Men, Inhumanity To Man

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• For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Humility, Political

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• Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest...

  Hester Lynch Piozzi

  Wisdom, One Love, Wittiest

  "Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay" edited by Charlotte Barrett, (vol. 2, p. 3), 1854.

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• No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

  Jascha Heifetz

  Your Side, People, Wish

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