252 quotes found
“Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you...”
“The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.”
“He's an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
“I've got quite a memory. Engraved in my mind, things are. I can't forget anything...It's not a sign of intelligence...Nothing to boast about, memory...that's just how it is...”
“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”
“Kindness is the supreme intelligence.”
“Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.”
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously has the spiritual vision necessary to see the unseen spiritual...”
“They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.”
“Gilks sighed. Youre 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.”
“Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.”
“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which do...”
“There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.”
“Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.”
“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, poo...”
“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 ...”
“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 wed be smarter doers because ...”
“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...”
“My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step”
“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...”
