Intelligence Quotes - Page 10

• Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Smart, Book, People

  FaceBook post by Barbara Corcoran from Sep 09, 2014

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• The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Learning, Differences

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, Intelligent, Form

  Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939

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• Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Religious, Fear, Judging

  Saint Bridget (of Sweden), Marguerite Tjader Harris, Albert Ryle Kezel (1990). “Life and Selected Revelations”, p.136, Paulist Press

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• Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

  Krista Tippett

  Wise, Wisdom, Exercise

  "The Real Environmental Crisis: Lessons From the Green Patriarch" by Krista Tippett, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 6, 2012.

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• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

  Ronald Reagan

  Business, Patriotic, Intelligence Services

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• For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Truth, Men

  1972 On Africa. In the New York Times,16 Apr.

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• Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as were technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general the higher a position in an organization, the more EI mattered: for individuals in leadership positions, 85 percent of their competencies were in the EI domain.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Jobs, Emotional

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• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Speech to the National Press Club, The Independent, Volume 77, March 20, 1914.

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• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.

  Carl Sagan

  Respect, Science, Intelligent

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Mad, Intellectual

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Devil's Dictionary (or The Cynic's Wordbook: Unabridged with all the Definitions)”, p.126, e-artnow

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• Intelligence forbids tears.

  Doris Lessing

  Tears

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• Intelligence is derived from two words

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Two

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• True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Creativity, Mind

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• Primitive does not mean stupid.

  Albie Sachs

  Stupid, Mean, Doe

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• In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

  Chauncey Wright

  Men, Order, Mind

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Taught Us, Madness

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• Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Beauty, Nature, Pain

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• Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “Real Magic: Creating Miracles in Everyday Life”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

  Victor Hugo

  Dry, Scepticism

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• The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligent, Roles, Opinion

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.130, Psychology Press

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• In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

  Herbert Hoover

  People, Individual, Mass

  Herbert Hoover (1926). “Higher education and the state government: an address”

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• I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Spiritual, Infinite Intelligence, Law

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• For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

  Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

  Love, Inspirational, Truth

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