Intelligence Quotes - Page 14

• It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  World, Incredibles, Nonsense

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• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

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• Even babies like to grab for things just beyond their reach.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Baby, Intellectual

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• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

  Seneca the Younger

  Mediocrity, Helping, Diligence

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• It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.

  Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

  Education, Children, School

  Knut Schmidt-Nielsen (1998). “The Camel's Nose: Memoirs Of A Curious Scientist”, p.3, Island Press

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• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Doe, Malice

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Wise, Wisdom, Witty

  Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.94, Broadview Press

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  Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

  Lena Horne

  Inspiring, Work, People

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

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• Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Men, Events

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.50, Рипол Классик

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• State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ethics, Morality, States

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.238

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• If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Wisdom, Destiny, Men

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• For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teaching, Sparks

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• Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Government, Experts

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.2, Psychology Press

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• There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

  Pema Chodron

  Words Of Wisdom, Reason, Goodness

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.78, Shambhala Publications

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• Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Democracies Have, Race, Democracy

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• The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

  Frederick Douglass

  Teaching, Intellectual, Mind

  Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books

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• The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

  Roger Smith

  Teaching, People, Diversity

  U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

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• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  William Shakespeare

  Gulls, Ghost, Familiar

  Sonnet 86

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• He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.

  Samuel Tuke

  Thinking, Skills, Intellectual

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• It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Wisdom, Business

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• The truth is more important than the facts.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Witty, Truth

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier

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• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Courage, Passion

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.304

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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