Intelligence Quotes - Page 17

• It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Wisdom, Easy

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• Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Heaven

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• Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Pieces, Bears

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

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• If you keep missing, get closer to the basket.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, Missing

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• A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Achievement

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Mistake, School

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  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Wisdom

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Education, Genius

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 10th edition, 1919.

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• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Clever, People, Tolerate

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Genius

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• Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Wisdom, Two, Promise

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

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• There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Wisdom, Silence, Age

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

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• Love is the highest form of intelligence we can experience.

  John Pierrakos

  Love, Form, Highest

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• Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.

  J Harlen Bretz

  Men, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Children, taught either years beneath their intelligence or miles wide of relevance to it, or both: their intelligence becomes hopelessly bewildered, drawn off its centers, bored, or atrophied.

  James Agee

  Hope, Children, Years

  James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search engine Google can scan a billion Web pages and find the one page that has the exact piece of information you were looking for. It's the reason it's so hard to make money betting on NFL games, and it helps explain why, for the past fifteen years, a few hundred amateur traders in the middle of Iowa have done a better job of predicting election results than Gallup polls have.

  James Surowiecki

  Wisdom, Jobs, Past

  "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Book by James Surowiecki, 2004.

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• Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

  Paul Tillich

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.

  Whitfield Diffie

  Character, Intellectual, Inseparable

  "Prophet Of Privacy". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 1, 1994.

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• It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Intellectual, Genius

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Spiritual, Attitude, Writing

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Character

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• . . . Intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom.

  Laozi

  Wisdom

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• A good mind possesses a kingdom.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Mind, Kingdoms

  "Thyestes", Act II. 380 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 513-516), 1922.

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• A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

  Richard B. Livingston

  Jobs, Teaching, Learning

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• Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Intellectual, Each Day

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