Intelligence Quotes

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident, it is to have a soulmate for life.
Victoria Secunda

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

A library implies an act of faith.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
Marilyn Manson

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.
J. G. Holland

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Dame Agatha Christie

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Milan Kundera

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

We think too much and feel too little.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John Calvin

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen DeGeneres

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Herodotus

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
Dave Chappelle

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Ovid

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke