Intelligence Quotes - Page 35

• The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

  Albert Camus

  Temptation, Cynicism, Form

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

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• [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Intelligent, Stupidity

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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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• Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

  Graham Greene

  Intelligent, Simple, Worst Enemy

  Graham Greene (1983). “The Human Factor”, Viking Press

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• [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

  Harold Urey

  Intelligent, Race, Doubt

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• What a splendid head, yet no brain.

  Aesop

  Brain, Splendid

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Intelligence is not a science.

  Frank Carlucci

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• I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

  James E. Faust

  Believe, Treasure, Earth

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with . . . that of former times, we see that "chemical imperialism" has been . . . the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Population, Environment

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• We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

  Rumi

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

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• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  Carl Sandburg

  Integrity, Competition, Conflict

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

  Confucius

  Men, May, Made

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

  Andre Gide

  Intelligent, Men, People

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.275, Routledge

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• Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

  Albert Camus

  Gains, Intensity, Chains

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage

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• There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

  Edgar Degas

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• There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Writing, Unique, Men

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Doe, Doomed

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• The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

  Will Rogers

  People, Stupidity, Intellectual

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

  Alafair Burke

  Dope, Sides, Cop

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan

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• I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

  Monique Wittig

  Letting Go, Passion, Feels

  Monique Wittig (1987). “Across the Acheron”, Dufour Editions

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• Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.

  June Goodfield

  Love Is, Light, Understanding

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• The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intelligent, Ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.237, Penguin

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