Intelligence Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

  James Randi

  Smart, People, Looks

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• People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.

  Gillian Anderson

  Intelligent, People, Perspective

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• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Tools, Faculty, Intellect

  "Creative Evolution" (1907) by Henri Bergson, as quoted in "Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence" by David Kreps, 2015.

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• You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

  Massad Ayoob

  Ethics, Born

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• If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Characters: Of The Gifts of Fortune," #49, 1688.

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• You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.

  Will Rogers

  People, Common Sense, Common

  Paula Love, Will Rogers (1972). “The Will Rogers book”, Texian Pr

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• Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Learning, Men

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.461, 谷月社

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• I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

  Jackie Robinson

  Success, Believe, Past

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• I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

  Leon Spinks

  Education, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

  Bertrand Russell

  May, Courses

  Attributed in "The Times book of quotations" by Philip Howard, (p. 84), 2000.

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• Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything -- from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Education, Teacher, School

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• The admission fee was a viper's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto. It was a sort of intellectual slaughterhouse.

  Groucho Marx

  Intellectual, Tongue, Vipers

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.108, Da Capo Press

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• The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

  Lucy Larcom

  Learning, Intellectual, World

  Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

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• We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Learning, Intellectual, Ignorant

  "Daniel Boorstin" by Godfrey Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2004.

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• Who are a little wise the best fools be.

  John Donne

  Wise, Intellectual, Littles

  John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.18, Harvard University Press

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• Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.

  John Ruskin

  Wise, Intelligent, Choices

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, World

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Phrases, Becoming

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• The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Loss, Men

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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