The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Intelligent - Intelligence Quotes
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Be diligent and intelligent. Diligence is quick to carry out what intelligence has has lingered over. Fools are fond of hurry: they take no heed of obstacles and act incautiously. The wise usually fail through hesitation. Fools stop at nothing, the wise at everything. Sometimes things are judged correctly but go wrong out of inefficiency […]
It is scandalous that any modern, intelligent, well-educated person should believe in Christianity.
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
