Intelligence Quotes - Page 35

• The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.

  Richard Whately

  Education, Ignorance, Misled

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.164

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• The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.

  William Henry Chase

  Wise, Wisdom, Sadness

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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• There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

  Edgar Degas

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• The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

  Will Rogers

  People, Stupidity, Intellectual

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Doe, Doomed

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• For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Organization, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

  Harold Urey

  Intelligent, Race, Doubt

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• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

  Albert Camus

  Gains, Intensity, Chains

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

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• Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

  Andre Gide

  Intelligent, Men, People

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.275, Routledge

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• A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

  Confucius

  Men, May, Made

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Integrity, Competition, Conflict

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Unique, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

  Graham Greene

  Intelligent, Simple, Worst Enemy

  Graham Greene (1983). “The Human Factor”, Viking Press

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• The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.237, Penguin

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• The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Artist, People

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.

  June Goodfield

  Love Is, Light, Understanding

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• I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

  Monique Wittig

  Letting Go, Passion, Feels

  Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Sides, Cop

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• What a splendid head, yet no brain.

  Aesop

  Brain, Splendid

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

  Rumi

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

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• Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

  David Lynch

  Fear, People, Creative

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