Intelligence Quotes

Scuttlebutt is one of the most overlooked acts that can decrease one's sagacity

One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent "ordinary" man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Alfred N. Whitehead

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

Christopher Morley

To the good listener half a word is enough.

Spanish Proverb

Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.

Thomas à Kempis

Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person therefore is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil that confidence should supersede fear that love is superior to hate that gentleness is better than cruelty forbearance than intolerance compassion than arrogance and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

J. Martin Klotsche

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

Henry Kissinger

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

We All Bleed RedWe have a confirmed threat against the homeland and I for one am grateful for the Americans sitting in the Army conference room in Fort Stewart, Georgia. The display cubes and screens lets us see different locations, cities, departments of the armed forces. It also allows us to see three commonalities. (1) We are all different. I take such pleasure in seeing the diverse group we call the intelligence community. We are different races, nationalities, and ethnic groups.(2) This brings us to the second commonality…we are all Americans. Yes, we fuss, we have differences of opinions, but we are all Americans.(3) The third and most important commonality is the fact that we all bleed red. We are humankind.These are the bonds that unite us…bond us…make us better beings. I have not mentioned religion because my God allows me to respect other people’s belief. I just ask that as we work through this crisis that we hold dearly on to these three commonalities.The Director of National Intelligence

James M. Robinson

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

Where life ends, peace begins!

Debasish Mridha

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

He could be so charming and irreverent and witty, and then-bam!-a switch flipped and he reverted right back to the cocky asshole everyone reported him to be.

Lauren Weisberger

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

René Descartes

Let happiness bloom. In the caring love,In the softness of your tender voice,In the nonjudgmental love,In the beauty and pureness of a smile.

Debasish Mridha

For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

Debasish Mridha

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

Debasish Mridha

Never pursue happiness, just create the happiness inside you.

Debasish Mridha

Never pursue happiness, just create it inside you.

Debasish Mridha

Why are you choosing to be unhappy, when you're created for happiness?

Debasish Mridha

Act to create beauty without expecting results.

Debasish Mridha

Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to.

Debasish Mridha

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

Debasish Mridha

Education does not solve any problem but it gives you the ability to solve the problem.

Debasish Mridha

Be the solution, not the problem.

Debasish Mridha

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Herman Melville

Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself.

Debasish Mridha

Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.

Bertrand Russell

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Albert Einstein

You have to be smart to get what you want.

Rule number one. The good guys always win.Rule number two. If the good guys lose, we play again.

Charles S. Faddis

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

A person who always finds something wrong is most likely thinking wrong.

Debasish Mridha

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

Debasish Mridha

Share your love, share your happiness; you will be rich and a great success.

Debasish Mridha

I was a fool, alone, preparing to do what every fool did at such times—I was going to a bar to drink myself smart.

In the garden of my heartFlowers of loves were bloomingNot just to express the beauty But to spread the fragrance Of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

Debasish Mridha

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

Debasish Mridha

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics.

Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

Debasish Mridha

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

Debasish Mridha

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Debasish Mridha

The intelligent talk and the wise listen.

Don’t care about day to day things, don’t care about the mundane, but care about what matters.

Debasish Mridha

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