Intelligence Quotes

3172 quotes by 1911 authors

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the… — Noel Coward
There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times… — John Powell
Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark. — Michel de Montaigne
He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions. — Samuel Johnson
If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. — W. Somerset Maugham
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events. — George Santayana
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial. — Benjamin Disraeli
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.… — George Sand
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. — Nicolas Chamfort
If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. — Andre Gide
A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials. — Louis Kronenberger
Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors. — Alan Sugar
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor
Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come… — Joseph Wood Krutch
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived… — Edgar Lee Masters
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. — Paul Tillich
A good mind possesses a kingdom. — Seneca the Younger
Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness,… — David Lynch

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