Intelligence Quotes - Page 3

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

Debasish Mridha

Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

Debasish Mridha

Desire, problem solving, and communication are all signs of intelligence and awareness. My cat has these, so it's quite possible he has a soul too.

This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same

Adrian Sandvaer

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

Tim Fargo

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

Debasish Mridha

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

Debasish Mridha

Decision and purpose directed actions define destination.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from actions.

Debasish Mridha

Be kind! Go and burn the world with the fire of your love.

Debasish Mridha

This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway.

David Foster Wallace

I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

Charlotte Brontë

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacings back and forth, its disastrous retreats! Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances. There are people who say that intelligence must have built the universe - why, intelligence never built a steam-engine! Circumstances built a steam-engine. Intelligence is little more than a short foot-rule by which we measure the infinite achievements of Circumstances.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

Debasish Mridha

You can't make the right decision, but you can always make the dicision right.

A leader is firm enough to be responsive to changes.

Debasish Mridha

Intelligence comes with hard work and curiosity for the unknown.

Be curious! Curiosity is the mother of all knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about.

Debasish Mridha

An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality.

Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this reality, civilization becomes clearer and unfortunately, more distressing.

D.A. Blankinship

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

Debasish Mridha

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Richard John Neuhaus

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

John Maynard Keynes

I couldn't stand being identified by my sexuality, I retaliated by insisting that people regard me for my intellectual worth. My intellect became a form of damage control.

Leora Tanenbaum

Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.

Debasish Mridha

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Ovid

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

George Saunders

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Debasish Mridha

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey.

Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

Robert David Steele

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

Robert David Steele

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

Robert David Steele

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

Robert David Steele

In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Earth systems and their details in balance; a commitment to discovering and sharing the truth and only the truth at all times about all things; and a commitment to doing no harm.

Robert David Steele

Our concept of truth becomes more universal as we reach higher levels of consciousness and awareness, taking in a wider spectrum of information and possibility. As we adapt a more expanded perspective on our reality, our concept of what is true and meaningful changes--from local to regional, regional to global, beyond global to the galaxy, and then to the cosmos.

Robert David Steele

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

Robert David Steele

Put in the bluntest possible terms, what I discovered was that the U.S. secret intelligence community was collecting only information it considered secret, while ignoring the eighty to ninety percent of the information in the world, in all languages, that was not secret.

Robert David Steele

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

Robert David Steele

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Robert David Steele

There is nothing wrong with the United States--or the world at large--that cannot be stabilized and reconstructed by restoring the intelligence and integrity of all our organizations across the eight communities (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-governmental/non-profit).

Robert David Steele

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

Robert David Steele

Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

Robert David Steele

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

Teaching is the best way to learn.

Debasish Mridha

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Debasish Mridha

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