Intelligence Quotes - Page 27

• Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

  Mason Cooley

  Isolation, Turns

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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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• We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.

  Jerome Frank

  Men, Promise, Democracy

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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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• There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  "Maxims and Considerations". Book by E. P. Mathers, 1926.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intelligent disagreement.” I found neither. Today, I am not looking for “intelligent disagreement” any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

  Ayn Rand

  Intelligent, Agreement, Disagreement

  "Letters of Ayn Rand".

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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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• Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

  Alfred de Musset

  Perfection, Triumph, Doe

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• As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Hands, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1801). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.”, p.317

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