Quotes about Intelligence

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future, and renders the present inaccessible.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

The cardinal rule of a truly intelligent man: When you argue with a fool, it proves that there are two.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because, without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I am convinced that intelligence is the most powerful thing in the world, and the most precious.