Intelligence Quotes - Page 52

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

To change the reality, change the perception but not the reality.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.

There was a fine line between madness and intelligence.

✡ Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment of religion.

Sarcasm is waster on the young.

The base is as strong as the foundation, the tree's trunk as sturdy as the depth it took root. And when we witness this the questions of past introspection could also be: When did certain reinforcements of that foundation get established?And why were there cracks to begin with?...that could take you so far back depending on the person, for that matter, any intelligent life-form, to make you ask:How could I compassionately hold anyone so against what I know I possibly once did myself?

Make every day a positive day. Make it joyful and beautiful in every way.

The driving desires of human hearts are to be loved and appreciated.

Life is not defined by what you achieve, but what you give.

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

Imagine, then think, then desire, then dream, then act to achieve and it will be yours.

Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

Not the sadness, but the happiness, is the ultimate purpose of life.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Most of our life we pass by waiting for tomorrow, but not living for today.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

Students may not remember what you try to teach them, but they will never forget who you are and what feelings you created in their mind.

A rich person who has no love in his heart is poorer than a poor person who has no money in his pocket.

When we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance in our life our lives become more abundant.

Life is finite but you're blessed with infinite love.

Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one?A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.Q. Can you prove that this mathematics is valid?A. Only to another mathematician.Q. Your claim then is that your truth is of so esoteric a nature that it is beyond the understanding of a plain man. It seems to me that truth should be clearer than that, less mysterious, more open to the mind.A. It presents no difficulties to some minds. The physics of energy transfer, which we know as thermodynamics, has been clear and true through all the history of man since the mythical ages, yet there may be people present who would find it impossible to design a power engine. People of high intelligence, too.

Love yourself to be the source of love.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Love is the most valuable currency of life which you can spend as much as you want without the risk of bankruptcy.

Once, in his first term, Cartwright had been bold enough to ask him why he was clever, what exercises he did to keep his brain fit. Healey had laughed."It's memory, Cartwright, old dear. Memory, the mother of the Muses... at least that's what thingummy said."

In this world where value is unknown, but the price of anything is marked, where the creation of self has been abandoned for the search for self, the behavior diagnosed as antisocial is often too quickly ascribed to intelligence when thrust into contact with widespread conformity, and refuses.

Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

The one thing most important to anything else is to be happy.

We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent.

Read,not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand.

You fulfill your hearts universal desire for love not by accumulating, but by giving.

It is weird to me on how people will come to church frequently and have absolutely no desire or intention to change anything about their life based on what they experienced in the church.

God takes two and make them one but satan takes one and make it two.

Peace is not the absence of war,but the presence of love and care.Peace is not the absence of agony,but the presence of joy of harmony.Peace is not the absence of poverty,but the presence of love for beauty.Peace is not the absence of intolerance. Peace is a way of life with joy of tolerance.

The greatest joy you can get is from giving, and the best thing that you can give is your love.

Serve a person in need.Give generously indeed.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Any prophet who does not refer you to christ is not a true prophet.

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day and night, holidays not excepted. His existence was made up of alternate periods of work and sleep in the laboratory. He had no hobby, cared for no sport or amusement of any kind and lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. There can be no doubt that, if he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence, who made it the one object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect. So great and uncontrollable was his passion for work.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time.

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life.

She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will never rest.

Emulate nature; see! A flower creates it's beauty with openness, kindness, slowness and with harmony.

This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.

Love is heavenly.Expression of love gives us the sweetest joy and deepest fulfillment.

Whenever someone is a threat to the enemy there will be an attack dispatched against that person to try to minimise their effectiveness.

A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt.

Wherever you travel to see beauty, you find yourself and your reflection again and again.

Hope is the reason the flowers bloom.

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.