Intelligence Quotes - Page 32

• On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

  Claude Debussy

  Teaching, Butterfly, Assessment

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• Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Quoted in Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888)

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• Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

  William Hazlitt

  Humanity, Genius, Use

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

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• Academic disciplines are subject to being overtaken by attacks of "knowingness"- a state of mind and soul that prevents shudders of awe and makes one immune to enthusiasm.

  Richard Rorty

  Discipline, Soul, Intellectual

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• Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

  John Stuart Mill

  Intellectual, Veins, Half

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

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• An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Artist, Intellectual, Following Your Own Path

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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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• I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.

  John Bunyan

  Cities, Stupidity, Degrees

  John Bunyan (2013). “The Pilgrim’s Progress Simplified: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.571, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Appreciation, Mind, Mark

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1855). “Tales and Sketches of New England Life: Comprising "The Mayflower," and Other Miscellaneous Writings”, p.46

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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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• The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Women, Brain, Possibility

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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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• intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

  Madame de Stael

  Sin, Intellect

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• When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Positive Thinking, College

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• God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

  Joseph Joubert

  Fire, Light, Flames

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.33

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• A girl's brain is mysterious, but only in a superficial way-a way very exasperating to me.

  James Agee

  Girl, Brain, Way

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• Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

  Roger Kimball

  Fire, Moral, Virtue

  Roger Kimball (2002). “Lives of the Mind: The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse”, Ivan R Dee

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• Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.

  Vera Nazarian

  Taken, Cat, Compassion

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• Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Peace, Government, Law

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