Intelligence Quotes - Page 23

• The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Doe, Use, Soil

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• It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

  Fannie Hurst

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

  Horace Mann

  Weed, Men, Hands

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• There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Underestimate

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• People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

  Moliere

  People, Quality, Literature

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.27, Penguin

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• Intelligence is the effort to do the best you can at your particular job; the quality that gives dignity to that job, whether it happens to be scrubbing a floor or running a corporation.

  James Cash Penney

  Running, Jobs, Giving

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• It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

  Harold Prince

  Class, Guy, Hustle

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• It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

  Charles Simmons

  Intellectual, Useless, Becoming

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• A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

  Malcolm Knowles

  Party, Principles, Systems Theory

  Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1984). “The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species”, Gulf Publishing Company

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• We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

  Jean Houston

  Knowing, Democracy, Sitting

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• Democracy is self-creating coherence.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Creating, Self, Democracy

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• When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

  Irwin Corey

  Intellectual, Sells

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• Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Education, Teaching, Imagination

  W. W. Sawyer (2012). “Mathematician's Delight”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Math, Feelings, Statistics

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• I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Sometimes, Blasphemy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.73, Routledge

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Support, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.59, Routledge

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• We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Education, Smart, Math

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• A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

  William Henry Hudson

  Animal, Equality, Men

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “Collected Works”

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• We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Attitude, Humility

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.21, Mango Media Inc.

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• Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Years, Civilization

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Love, Atheist, Men

  Telephone Remarks to a Group of Boy Scouts: "What it Means to Be a Boy Scout", July 25, 1924.

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• The mathematician who pursues his studies without clear views of this matter, must often have the uncomfortable feeling that his paper and pencil surpass him in intelligence.

  Ernst Mach

  Math, Views, Uncomfortable Feeling

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• An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Smart, Taken, Men

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• Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Law, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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