Intelligence Quotes - Page 36

• 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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• The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

  Aldous Huxley

  Book, Artist, People

  Aldous Huxley (1954). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point”

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• For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Organization, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Ray Bradbury

  Confidence, Courage, Travel

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• Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Programming, Ability

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• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Work, Intelligent, Tests

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• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Intelligent, Play, Serious Things

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.815, GENERAL PRESS

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• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hate, Intelligent, Top Down

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• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

  Anna Freud

  Inspirational, Witty, Educational

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• Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

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• What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Success, Common Sense, Intellectual

  "Helen Gurley Brown's feminist legacy", www.sfgate.com. August 14, 2012.

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• The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Victory, Progress

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Thinking, People

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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  When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Marriage, Wisdom

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.126, Courier Corporation

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• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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  Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

  George Carlin

  Nature, Philosophy, Stupid

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  Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Patience, Spiritual

  "The De Patientia of St. Augustine: A Translation with an Introduction and Commentary" by Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Paul Bryan, 1963.

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