Intelligence Quotes - Page 29

• The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

  Albert J. Nock

  Inspirational, Learning, Parenting

  Harper's Magazine, Vol. 154, (p. 730), 1927.

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• To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

  Richard Leakey

  Arrogance, Would Be, Earth

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• To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, School, Self Confidence

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• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  Laozi

  Nature, Educational, Taoism

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• What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Character, Emotional

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• Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Life, Views, Ends

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• We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Intelligent, Lap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

  James Moore

  Doe, Power Corrupts, Knowledge Is Power

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• Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fool, Poor, Wit

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• At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

  Virginia Postrel

  Inspirational, People, Levels

  Virginia Postrel (2011). “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The best learners... often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.

  Stephen Brookfield

  Education, Teacher, Real

  Stephen Brookfield (1995). “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher”, Jossey-Bass

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• The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Education, Appreciation, Teacher

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• Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

  James Whistler

  Art, May, Safe

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

  Phil Jackson

  Inspiring, Basketball, Sports

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stupid, People, Dull

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.127

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• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Nature, Earth Day

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

  Norman Podhoretz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

  Aberjhani

  Literary Genre, Mind, Technique

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• Education is understanding relationships.

  George Washington Carver

  Educational, Understanding

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• You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Smart, Cookies

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• To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Mean, Intelligent, Knowing

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• I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

  Alice James

  Education, Stupid, Humorous

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• An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Technology, Invention

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

  Tom Stoppard

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Useless Things

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• Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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