Intelligence Quotes - Page 18

• When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

  Linji Yixuan

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

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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 brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

  Kevin Kelly

  Smart, Thinking, Simple

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• Every piece of the puzzle that doesn't fit gets you closer to the answer.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Assessment, 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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• The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Intelligent, Support

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• Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

  Bergen Evans

  Leadership, College, Average

  Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

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• Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

  Jacques Deval

  Wisdom, Intuition, Needs

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

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Genius

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• As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Knowledge, Mysterious

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Teaching, Assessment

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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• The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Inspirational, Focus, Important

  Robert J. Shiller (2015). “Irrational Exuberance”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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• Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

  Lauren Hutton

  Book, Ideas, Two

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• It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Education, School, Emotional

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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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• 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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• Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

  Maya Angelou

  Thinking, Intellectual, Each Day

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• You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing - memory is not intelligence. But the whole of humanity has been deceived for centuries and told indirectly that the memory is intelligence. Your schools, your colleges, your universities are not trying to find your intelligence; they are trying to find out who is capable of memorizing more. And now we know perfectly well that memory is a mechanical thing. A computer can have memory, but a computer cannot have intelligence.

  Rajneesh

  Memories, School, College

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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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• 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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• 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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• If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligent, Meditation, Mind

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• Mind is just in the middle. You are nothing but a mess. If you can go beyond it, intelligence grows in you; if you go below it, any intelligence that you had disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Mind, Disappear

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• Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great intelligence. Only the intelligent ones feel confusion; otherwise the mediocres go on moving in life, smiling, laughing, accumulating money, struggling for more power and fame. If you see them you will feel a little jealous; they look so confident, they even look happy.

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Moving, Jealous

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