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Intelligence Quotes

intelligence quotes

Hi Everyone,

As you’ve probably noticed lately, I’m going through subject after subject of quotations that I’ve never covered before. Today it’s intelligence quotes.

Hope you enjoy them; be sure to leave a comment at the end of this post on a) if you liked this post, b) if you have any intelligence quotes to share, or c) which quotes you liked or disliked the most. icon smile

1) A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are portals of discovery. -James Joyce

2) Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. -Anna Freud

3) A mind is a fire to be kindled, not a vessel to be filled. -Plutarch

4) A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance. -Niccolo Machiavelli

5) On artificial intelligence: the real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -B.F Skinner

6) A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. -Alexander Cannon

7) Always be smarter than the people who hire you. -Lena Horne

8 ) An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. -Albert Camus

9) Any fool can criticise, condemn, and complain and most fools do. -Dale Carnegie

10) Chance favours the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur

11) Don’t be afraid to ask dumb questions. They’re easier to handle than dumb mistakes. -Carolyn Coats

12) Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film. -Unknown Author

13) Everyone is brilliant some of the time, and no one is that way all the time. -Kathleen Cushmes

14) Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind. -J. Krishnamurti

15) Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. -John Charles Salak

16) For every student with a spark of brilliance, there is about ten with ignition trouble. -Milton Berle

17) Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas A. Edison

18) Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt

19) Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. -Frank Kingdom

20) We are either fools or undiscovered geniuses. -Bonnie Lin

21) The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. -Herbert (Victor) Prochnow, Sr

22) Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara falls. Intelligence is not trying. -Anonymous

23) The function of genius is not to give new answers, but pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. -Hugh Trevor-Roper

24) It is not the IQ but the I Will that is most important in education. -Anonymous

25) People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. -Ed Maier

I really like 4, 11, and 18.  How about you?  And do you have any quotes/comments on this subject?  Go to the “Leave A Reply” section below.

-Shawn

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17 Responses to “Intelligence Quotes”

  1. Leonora Dompor on August 4th, 2009 at 2:18 am

    Whether you are great mind,average mind,small mind,the importance is the good intimate relationship you have with GOD and fellowmen.Even the dull and ignorant,they still have nice,dramatic,concrete story to tell.The devil are afraid of those simpliton,simple,humble,innocent people.
    originally by:UNI DOMPOR

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  2. Larry E. Moore on August 4th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. Author Unknown

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  3. I like the 21 which says; The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does. -Herbert (Victor) Prochnow, Sr and the number 25 which also went like dis; People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. -Ed Maier. Its really fantastic & serious. Shawn, u keep making every bit of my moments. May God richly reward ur efforts.

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  4. I particularly enjoyed the quotes that linked intelligence with humility and the possibility that it may exist in anyone.
    Thank you!

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  5. Thanks again for such insprirng quotes. On the same subject, I’d once read and put in my collection a few simple but valuable quotes by great minds…

    ‘The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination” – Albert Einstein

    ‘There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with their art and intelligence, transform the yellow spot to a sun’ – Pablo Picasso

    Keep up the good work. I always look forward to reading your quotes every week.

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  6. thanks a Quotes i read it

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  7. I liked 12-everyone has a photographic memory, some don’t have film. lol aint that the sad truth! lol to bad we can’t just buy more memory space when its needed..haha

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  8. I really liked 6 18 and 19. Here are 2 of my favorites Shawn.

    The mind is a lousy master, but a wonderful servant.

    Even a fool when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise, and he that shutteth his lips is a man of understanding.

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  9. You have challenged me with these intellegent quotes, I’m in love 18. keep it up I am glad I discovered this site. Thank you

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  10. i liked 7, 11, 18 and 23….

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  11. i liked 7, 11, 18 and 23. they actually filled me with enthusiasm. THANK YOU.

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  12. Bedava Film izle on August 29th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    Super post.Thank you

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  13. they actually filled me with enthusiasm. THANK YOU.

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  14. made feel the reality, truth inside oneself… THANKS

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  15. All of them are great,but i liked the 21 the most :)
    Thank you

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  16. 3,7,10,17,18,19
    thanks for sharing

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  17. They all re really superb , all inspiring me. But i loved 3,21

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