| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Einstein | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. |
| Chris Hamono | They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are. |
| E F Schumacker | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage- -to move in the opposite direction. |
| F Scott Fitzgerald | The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. |
| Henri Louis Bergson | In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. |
| Henri Louis Bergson | Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments. |
| Michelangelo Buonarott | The hand that follows intellect can achieve. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide |
| Robert Southey | The march of intellect. |
| Thomas Kempis | Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it. |
| William Falconer | Thou living ray of intellectual fire. |
| William Falconer | I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. |
| William Wordsworth | Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. |
| William Wordsworth | The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way! |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song, there lies the poet's native land. |
| Mark Twain | When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 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 spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | 'Tis good-will makes intelligence. |
| Thomas Carlyle | For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing." - Thomas Carlyle, |
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