Intelligence Quotes - Page 2

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

Intelligence is naked without wisdom. Wisdom dresses interestingly with intelligence.

Africa is a huge continent; it would take several lifetimes of thousands of researchers testing in hundreds of languages to collect a valid sample of anything, especially IQ. Most Africans do their schooling in a second language, not their mother tongue. How many people would accept to be tested for their IQ level not in their primary language?

T.K. Naliaka

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

Debasish Mridha

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Roland Barthes

Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Love those wrongdoers, they need it more than you.

Alfred Hitchcock

Let my love show you the way and give you guidance in the moment of need.

Debasish Mridha

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know things didn't have to hide it behind brown pants, and that the know-not-enoughs were laughed all the way to the Maine border on their first New Hampshire meet and greet. I wish that in order to secure his party's nomination, a presidential candidate would be required to point at the sky and name all the stars; have the periodic table of the elements memorized; rattle off the kings and queens of Spain; define the significance of the Gatling gun; joke around in Latin; interpret the symbolism in seventeenth-century Dutch painting; explain photosynthesis to a six-year-old; recite Emily Dickinson; bake a perfect popover; build a shortwave radio out of a coconut; and know all the words to Hoagy Carmichael's "Two Sleepy People," Johnny Cash's "Five Feet High and Rising," and "You Got the Silver" by the Rolling Stones. After all, the United States is the greatest country on earth dealing with the most complicated problems in the history of the world--poverty, pollution, justice, Jerusalem. What we need is a president who is at least twelve kinds of nerd, a nerd messiah to come along every four years, acquire the Secret Service code name Poindexter, install a Revenge of the Nerds screen saver on the Oval Office computer, and one by one decrypt our woes.

Sarah Vowell

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Debasish Mridha

If I want to be anything, I want to be a messenger of peace.

Debasish Mridha

My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step

Stanley Victor Paskavich

Luck always favors those who are bold.

Debasish Mridha

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the gap between loving and longing.

Debasish Mridha

Fun is never gone because life is fun.

Debasish Mridha

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

George F. Will

You attain happiness not by gaining, but by giving.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from loving and giving

Debasish Mridha

To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities and the most probable outcome of the future. One who retreats to fight another day isn't running away, but looking for another road towards the same destination.

Lionel Suggs

Intelligence analysts should be self-conscious about their reasoning processes. They should think about how they make judgments and reach conclusions, not just about the judgments and conclusions themselves.

Richard Heuer

A person with the best strategy never gets angry.

Debasish Mridha

Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

Debasish Mridha

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

Debasish Mridha

Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.

Elizabeth Winder

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving, and free.

Debasish Mridha

Hive Queen: They never know anything. They don't have enough years in their little lives to come to an understanding of anything at all. And yet they think they understand. From earliest childhood, they delude themselves into thinking they comprehend the world, while all that's really going on is that they've got some primitive assumptions and prejudices. As they get older they learn a more elevated vocabulary in which to express their mindless pseudo- knowledge and bully other people into accepting their prejudices as if they were truth, but it all amounts to the same thing. Individually, human beings are all dolts.Pequenino: While collectively...Hive Queen: Collectively, they're a collection of dolts. But in all their scurrying around and pretending to be wise, throwing out idiotic half-understood theories about this and that, one or two of them will come up with some idea that is just a little bit closer to the truth than what was already known. And in a sort of fumbling trial and error, about half the time the truth actually rises to the top and becomes accepted by people who still don't understand it, who simply adopt it as a new prejudice to be trusted blindly until the next dolt accidentally comes up with an improvement.>Pequenino: So you're saying that no one is ever individually intelligent, and groups are even stupider than individuals-- and yet by keeping so many fools engaged in pretending to be intelligent, they still come up with some of the same results that an intelligent species would come up with.Hive Queen: Exactly.

Orson Scott Card

This is probably the advantage of being stupid. Stupid people just do. We tend to overthink. If we could eliminate the “over” and just think, then we could do, too. Only we’d be smarter doers because we’d be thinkers.

Sarah Strohmeyer

No matter how smart you might appear to be later with your set of diplomas on their fine white parchment, the mistakes you made before the real lessons sunk in never fade. No matter how high you hang those official documents with their official seals and signatures, how shinning and polished the frame, your reflection in the glass will never let you forget how stupid you felt when you didn't know any better.

Tupelo Hassman

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

Debasish Mridha

Let us think, let us loveJust for a day, just for a nightLet us find peace and happinessDeep in our heart with spiritual light.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness absolutely depends on how you think.

Debasish Mridha

Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison.

Debasish Mridha

Was it possible that perhaps the most plausible explanation was being offered by someone who anyone with an ounce of sanity would have long ago consigned to the realm of the insane?

Tim Horvath

Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level.

Marcia Conner

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.

Arthur Conan Doyle

If you want to be, if you want to see, let us read a lot, then we will have a shot!

Debasish Mridha

Be like a peacock and dance with all of your beauty.

Debasish Mridha

I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

She will try to find the nice way to exercise intelligence. But intelligence is not ladylike. Intelligence is full of excesses. Rigorous intelligene abhors sentimentality, and women must be sentimental to value the dreadful silliness of the men around them. Morbid intelligence abhors the cheery sunlight of positive thinking and eternal sweetness; and women must be sunlight and cheery and sweet, or the woman could not bribe her way with smiles through a day. Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No woman could be Nietzsche or Rimbaud without ending up in a whorehouse or lobotomized. Any vital intelligence has passionate questions, aggressive answers; but women cannot be explorers; there can be no Lewis or Clark of the female mind.

Andrea Dworkin

Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

Wazim Shaw

Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement and who then make contributions to that field that are considered by peers to be both original and highly exemplary.

Dean Keith Simonton

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

Ben Marcus

Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead herring. Intelligence is a harder gift, for this you must work, you must practise it, challenge it and maybe towards the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow whereas intelligence is the substance.

Bryce Courtenay

When you meet someone you want to know, be very careful on how you sit on the driving seat to examine that person because you may end up putting yourself on a serious examination. Sometimes people lose interest & walk away after a chat because of the type of questions & silly discussions you engage in. Sometimes your highest intelligence end up exposing your foolishness.

Uzoma Nnadi

A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk.

Debasish Mridha

I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares.

Debasish Mridha

You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.

Amit Kalantri

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

Raheel Farooq

Comparison is the most abused intellectual tool of all. We compare men and women, man and God, good and bad, equal and unequal, forgetting that this sin only results in a punishment so severe that we can't even trace it back to its origins. All we're left with in the end is ambiguity, uncertainty, lethargy and and Kafka!

Raheel Farooq

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

Debasish Mridha

It became clear that Keisha Blake could not start something without finishing it. If she climbed onto the boundary wall of Caldwell, she was compelled to walk the entire wall, no matter the obstructions in her path (beer cans, branches). This compulsion, applied to other fields, manifested itself as "intelligence." Every unknown word sent her to a dictionary--in search of something like "completion"--and every book led to another book, a process that, of course, could never be completed. This route through early life gave her no small portion of joy, and, indeed, it seemed at first that her desires and her capacities were basically aligned. She wanted to read things--could not resist wanting to read things--and reading was easily done, and relatively inexpensive. On the other hand, that she should receive any praise for such reflexive habits baffled the girl, for she knew herself to be fantastically stupid about many things. Wasn't it possible that what others mistook for intelligence was in fact only a sort of mutation of the will?

Zadie Smith

A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

Debasish Mridha

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

Cultural criticism always attacks the mass media. I don't think that makes sense. We should look more closely at the work of deformation that starts deeper down, especially because it involves so much demoralization. Something gets destroyed there that should not be destroyed under any circumstances - THE AWARENESS THAT KNOWLEDGE IS BORN OUT OF EUPHORIA AND THAT INTELLIGENCE IS A RELATIONSHIP OF THE HAPPY CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ITSELF. And that intelligence partly consists in the ability to find our own ways of overcoming the boredom that develops in an under-used brain. Across society as a whole, the most disturbing symptom is that people are no longer ambitious enough to plumb the limits of understanding within themselves. INTELLIGENCE IS THE LAST UTOPIAN POTENTIAL. THE ONLY TERRA INCOGNITA HUMANKIND STILL OWNS ARE THE GALAXIES OF THE BRAIN, THE MILKY WAYS OF INTELLIGENCE. And there is hardly any any convincing space travel in them. Incidentally, this internal astronautics is the only alternative to a consumerist perspective. It is the only thing that could explain to people in the future that their intelligence space is so immense that they can experiment with themselves for millennia without becoming exhausted. The really good news is that there is something breathtakingly great that is called intelligence and is uncharted. ARE YOU WILLING TO VOLUNTEER ?

Peter Sloterdijk

Happiness comes from your mindset.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Debasish Mridha

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Debasish Mridha

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