Quotes about Intelligence
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
by John Abbott (Statesman, Canadian , born in 1970) keywords: afraid, answer, anything, ashamed, ask, asked, being, everything, how, ignorant, intelligent, know, man, much, never, questions, very, which , wise I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Athlete, American , born in 1947) keywords: ball, besides, biggest, else, hoop, mind, resource, something, stuff , through Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: character, great, intellect, makes, most, say, scientist, which , wrong We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
by Albert Einstein (Physicist, German , born in 1879) keywords: care, course, god, intellect, make, muscles, our, personality, powerful, should , take Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet, American , born in 1970) keywords: character, great, higher, intellect, live, soul, strong, than, think, well , will The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author, American , born in 1896) keywords: ability, first-rate, function, hold, ideas, intelligence, mind, opposed, retain, same, still, test, time , two What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
by Sigmund Freud (Psychologist, Austrian , born in 1856) keywords: adult, average, between, child, contrast, distressing, feeble, intelligence, mentality , radiant
