252 quotes found
“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”
“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”
“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, li...”
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
“Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.”
“Intelligence is seeing the ups, downs, cycles and patterns in the game of life. Wisdom is not being played or a player - but being at one with life, dancing with life, being full of life, in flow w...”
“Intelligence is overrated. Wisdom is under applied.”
“I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.”
“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which,...”
“This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.”
“We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an ...”
“collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.”
“... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.”
“He pulled back on the bridle, stopping in disbelief. Your love for him has damaged your senses.And your hunger for power has affected you intelligence”
“Untalented people, unintelligent people go into politics. Those who are talented become artists, painters, poets, philosophers, mystics, dancers. They have a thousand and one other beautiful things...”
“Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.”
“While we may continue to use the wordssmart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopolyof those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Br...”
“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
