Intelligence Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• [Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Honesty, Believe, Character

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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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• You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Imagination, Poetry, Purpose

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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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• 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 temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

  Albert Camus

  Temptation, Cynicism, Form

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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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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• Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Effort, Forever, Mind

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• If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, Animal, Matter

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• Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.

  Robert Hewison

  Friends, Running, Failure

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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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• The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doors, Growth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.390, Рипол Классик

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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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• An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Intelligent, Class, Excited

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• Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

  Maxim Gorky

  Class, Intellectual, Growth

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• I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Believe, People, Tragedy

  Mrs. Patrick Campbell (1922). “My life and some letters”

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