Intelligence Quotes - Page 5

• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Courage, Honesty

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• In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

  Robert Lawson Shaw

  Music, Luxury, Focus

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• A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 03, 2013

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• I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Determination

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• The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

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• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

  Dan Chaon

  Hilarious, Peace, Tired

  Dan Chaon (2012). “Stay Awake: Stories”, p.59, Ballantine Books

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Intelligent

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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• All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Intelligent, Thinking, Trying

  "Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 441, 1998.

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• The color of truth is gray.

  Andre Gide

  Color, Intellectual, Truth Is

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Knowledge, Intelligent, People

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

  Susan Sontag

  Intelligent, Ideas, Taste

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• I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Smart, Political, Insightful

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• Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.

  Daniel Goleman

  Stress, Optimistic, Men

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Working With Emotional Intelligence”, p.7, Bantam

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• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Genius, Talent, Century

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

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

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  Immanuel Kant

  Maturity, Divine Guidance, Immature

  "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Lewis White Beck, 1784.

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• Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Integrity, Patriotic

  "The Book of Unusual Quotations" by Rudolf Flesch, (p. 12), 1957.

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Age, Belief

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

  Charles Babbage

  Ideas, Two, Confusion

  Passages from the Life of a Philosopher ch. 5 (1864) See Countess of Lovelace 1; Modern Proverbs 35

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  Albert Camus

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Intelligent

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Military, Power

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• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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