“Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.”
Source: Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe
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Source: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise,
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”
“If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.”
Source: Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
“He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.”
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson
“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Source: Juvenal and Persius
“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”
Source: Right Wing Women
“I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.”
“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.”
Source: Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”
“Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.”
“Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.”
“I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.”
“Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.”
Source: The evening colonnade
“Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.”
Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
“His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.”
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”
“When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.”
Source: The Odes of Pindar
“It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves.”
“Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.”
“There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.”
“The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible.”
Source: Works
“There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.”
“Life is a festival only to the wise.”
Source: The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.”
Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed