Intelligence Quotes - Page 7

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

When two or more people coordinate in a spirit of harmony, and work toward a definite objective, they place themselves in position, through that alliance, to absorb power directly from the great universal storehouse of Infinite Intelligence.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.

A mind too active is no mind at all.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

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

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.