Intelligence Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  Art, Nature, Ability

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

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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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• 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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• When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Long, Doe

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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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• The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

  Michael J Cohen

  Intelligent, Community, Natural

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• Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

  Rumi

  Intelligent, Wool, Carpet

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• Human beings have a variety of intelligences, such as cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, musical intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, and so on. Most people excel in one or two of those, but do poorly in the others. This is not necessarily or even usually a bad thing; part of Integral wisdom is finding where one excels and thus where one can best offer the world one's deepest gifts.

  Ken Wilber

  Emotional, Two, People

  Ken Wilber (2007). “The Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• To be "integrally developed" does not mean that you have to excel in all the known intelligences, or that all of your lines have to be at level 3. But it does mean that you develop a very good sense of what your own psychograph is actually like, so that with a much more Integral self-image you can plan your future development.

  Ken Wilber

  Mean, Self, Doe

  Ken Wilber (2007). “Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

  Dee Hock

  Struggle, Data, Understanding

  Dee Hock, VISA International (1999). “Birth of the Chaordic Age”, p.224, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Ideas, Intellectual, Desire

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• That boy don't know the meaning of the word fear. In fact, I just saw his grades, and that boy don't know the meaning of a lot of words.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, Boys, College

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• The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Powerful, Men, Ideas

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

  John Constable

  Beauty, Beautiful, Attitude

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• Intelligent coaching is sometimes no coaching.

  Marty Stern

  Running, Inspiration, Intelligent

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• He must have been an incredibly good shot.

  Noel Coward

  Intellectual, Shots, Has Beens

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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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• A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.

  Terry Carr

  Witty, Smart, Learning

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