Quotes by Intelligence Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them. Thornton Wilder conditionsintelligencefavors State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules. Thomas Jefferson intelligenceethicsmorality To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe. Truman G. Madsen intelligencebecomingphilosophy Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. Umberto Eco intelligenceknowinginspirational Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence. Victor Hugo scepticismintelligencedry At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out. Virginia Postrel intelligenceinspirationalpeople Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future. W. Timothy Garvey intelligenceeducationpast If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now. W. Somerset Maugham intelligencewisdompeople The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. Wallace Stevens intelligencepoetrysuccess All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. Walter Benjamin interpretationintelligenceform Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you. Walther Rathenau intelligenceopponentsassuming Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing. Warren Buffett intelligenceordinarypeople I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable. Whitfield Diffie intelligenceintellectualcharacter You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people. Will Rogers common-senseintelligencepeople Brains aren't everything, but they're important. William Feather intelligenceimportantbrain If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt intelligencereadingwish Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. William Hazlitt intelligencegeniushumanity It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. Winston Churchill intelligenceperceptionwisdom That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence. William Shakespeare gullsintelligenceghost I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. William Shakespeare intelligencefoolpolitics«1112131415161718192021»
