Capacity Quote by Lytton Strachey Download Open image “Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.” — Lytton Strachey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Intelligence Men Summary Tests
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
“I agree with John Holt that the true test of intelligence is not what you know or can regurgitate from memory on an exam.… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Intelligence isn't measured in the way you speak or how high your degrees are, it's in the art that your hand and mind projects.” — RON Nicolas Copy Share Image
“Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right questions.” — Dave Meier Copy Share Image
“The consistent and persistent man of average intelligence is more likely to succeed than an erratic and lazy genius.” — Om Swami Copy Share Image
He who can properly summarize many ideas in a brief statement, is a wise man. — Euripides Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
