Intelligence Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• 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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• Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

  Joseph Chenier

  Genius, Taste, Talent

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• God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

  Saint Augustine

  Spiritual, Prayer, Light

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• They'll remember you if you're the best reader in class-or if you throw up at lunch.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Class, Lunch, Remember You

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• In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

  Brian Reid

  Success, Feet, Intellectual

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• In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

  Gerald Holton

  Success, Intellectual, Giants

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• Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Real, Intellectual, Needs

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• Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
  take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
  the bottom out of their boat.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rip, Mean, Facts

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• Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Simple, Interesting, Answers

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.142, Penguin

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• If you would take, you must first give.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Giving, Firsts

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• It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

  Agnes Repplier

  Race, Depravity, Humans

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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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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