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Intelligence Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Wise men are not wise at all times.
- Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.
- Life is a festival only to the wise.
- The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
- One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.
- In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,…
- We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when…
- Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
- We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer…
- Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
- The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that…
- Tis good-will makes intelligence.
- Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Genius always finds itself a century too early.
- To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men that is genius.
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Self trust is the essence of heroism.
- the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,…
- Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
- We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
- I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and…
More Intelligence Quotes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's… — Margaret Atwood
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo