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Intelligence Quotes - Page 8

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.56, Head of Zeus

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.

Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.