Quotes about Intelligence
The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.
- CS Lewis
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
- Henry Ford
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
What I mean is, if we aren't learning, we are forgetting, if we aren't getting smart, we are becoming dull. The latest statistic is that the average American watches 1,456 hours of television a year but only reads three books. So if it's true that readers are leaders, and the more you read the further you advance, then there isn't a lot of competition.
- Donald Miller
Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? A place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!
- John Keats
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.
- John Lennon
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.
- Anonymous
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
- Elbert Hubbard
Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.
- Henry Ford
You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice
- Gordon Hinckley
No man can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue. Worry is not merely useless, it is folly, for it defeats that power and intelligence which is otherwise equal to the task.
- James Allen
UNTIL thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. With
- James Allen