intelligence Quotes

“Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

topic:men intelligence

“You are mysterious, I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

topic:beauty intelligence mystery

“The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways, but without materials from the external world it is powerless”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

topic:experience mind intelligence

“Now and then a smart girl came into the profession, but she usually moved up to better things. She got a house of her own or worked successfully at blackmail or married a rich man. There was even a special name for the smart ones. They were...”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

topic:intelligence

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

topic:self strength power wisdom intelligence

“Immanuel Kant argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways: by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice.”

― Henry Kissinger, On China

topic:peace intelligence

“being . . . rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

topic:intelligence failure

“Take a real smart guy and he ain’t hardly ever a nice fella.”

― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

topic:intelligence kindness

“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”

― Jack London, The Star Rover

topic:stupidity intelligence cruelty

“That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to country people’s sayings.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

topic:education intelligence

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