Quotes on Intelligence

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Education is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society. Compassion and peace of mind bring a sense of confidence that reduce stress and anxiety, whereas anger and hatred come from frustration and undermine our sense of trust. Because of ignorance, many of our problems are our own creation. Education, however, is the instrument that increases our ability to employ our own intelligence.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. . . . We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it_x000D_ take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip_x000D_ the bottom out of their boat.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.