Intelligence Quotes - Page 8

• The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2017

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• An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Motivation, Military

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

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• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Integrity, Thinking

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• Remember, meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer

  Rajneesh

  Infinite Intelligence, Meditation, Alive

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• The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

  William Dean Howells

  Education, Men, Interesting

  "Literary Friends and Acquaintance: A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship".

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• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

  Janis Joplin

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Intellectual

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

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

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• There is no method but to be very intelligent.

  T. S. Eliot

  Intelligent, Crafts, Method

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• Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

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• The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

  Shane MacGowan

  Spiritual, Work, Drinking

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• A mind too active is no mind at all.

  Theodore Roethke

  Intuition, Mind, Active

  Theodore Roethke, William J. Martz (1966). “The achievement of Theodore Roethke: a comprehensive selection of his poems”

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

  George Scialabba

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• Only love expands intelligence.  To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

  Humberto Maturana

  Love, Acceptance, Loving Someone

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• There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

  Henry Adams

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Average

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• Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intelligent, Minorities

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• We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Littles, Illusion, Ability

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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• Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

  John Wayne

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Some other eyes will look around, and find the things I've never found.

  Malvina Reynolds

  Eye, Looks, Found

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• Looks fade. Brains don't.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Brain, Looks, Fades

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• It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Smart, Science

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• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teaching, Ignorance

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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• One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ironic, Irony, Danger

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• I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.197, Pan Macmillan

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