Intelligence Quotes - Page 26

• Fools do not understand men of intelligence.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Fool, Understand Me

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Daughter, Sex, Son

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• The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Blow, Wind, Mind

  Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”

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• Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Instinct, Poor, Dangerous

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• Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Hate, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Tests, Sake, Speed

  Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing

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• He must have been an incredibly good shot.

  Noel Coward

  Intellectual, Shots, Has Beens

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• Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

  Greg Camp

  Running, Fun, Smart

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• When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

  Irwin Corey

  Intellectual, Sells

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• If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wisdom, Men, Two

  Walter Savage Landor (1829). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.182

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• The real man of intelligence will not cling to any ideology - for what? He will not carry a load of readymade answers. He knows that he has enough intelligence so that whatever situation arises, he will be able to respond to it. Why carry an unnecessary load from the past? What is the point of carrying it?

  Rajneesh

  Real, Past, Men

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• Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

  William Allen White

  Men, Jewels, Consistency

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

  Alistair Cooke

  Curiosity, Wheeling

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• Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

  David C. Stark

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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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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• 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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• To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is art; to know why to strike is victory.

  James Roby

  Success, Art, Skills

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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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• Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Success, Knowing, Challenges

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