Intelligence Quotes

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

~ Vikas Swarup

Our actions are the results of our intentions and our intelligence.

~ E. Stanley Jones

Any time someone gives you drugs, the purpose is to subdue. Always. Whether it is from a dealer, a friend, your mother/brother/sister/son, or your government--especially your government--the intention is to subdue, and always to feed another motive. Why? Because in getting high, your power and your intellect are blunted. Can the motive ever be in your best interests? Governments notoriously use sex, drink, and drugs to subdue their people. Notoriously. And we're falling for it.

~ Northern Adams

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

~ Erol Ozan

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein's theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason, be trying to shut you out. You CAN understand almost anything.

~ Richard J. Maybury

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

~ Idries Shah

Happiness is the fragrance, not the fruit of an action.

~ Debasish Mridha

Not the action, but the expectation creates results.

~ Debasish Mridha

A leader first tries to listen, then tries to understand, then creates a common vision and then together takes action for the realization.

~ Debasish Mridha

A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from action, not from reaction. It is a feeling, not the success, but the perception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love is the source of all creation, happiness is the essence of all action.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you take an action with love, there is always happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you take an action to improve humanity, you are happy.

~ Debasish Mridha

If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been an eternity. In that eternity what was this God doing? He certainly did not think. There was nothing to think about. He did not remember. Nothing had ever happened. What did he do? Can you imagine anything more absurd than an infinite intelligence in infinite nothing wasting an eternity?

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

I have only a second rate brain, but I think I have a capacity for action.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

~ Debasish Mridha

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.

~ Debasish Mridha

Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

~ Debasish Mridha

To be happy, be happy with what you have. To be sad, want what you deserve.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you believe in your beauty, only then can everyone see it.

~ Debasish Mridha

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual, the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.

~ Criss Jami

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools, and the next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers. Soon you may set Catholic against Protestant and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the minds of men. If you can do one you can do the other. Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers, tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lectures, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After while, your honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

~ Clarence Darrow

An assumption is the joke, truth the punchline.

~ Criss Jami

Man is the only animal on earth intelligent enough to invent God and foolish enough to believe in Him.

~ Manoj Vaz

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

~ Criss Jami

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

~ Wilkie Collins

Thoughts are ghosts of emotions.

~ Raheel Farooq

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.

~ James Hervey Johnson

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are brilliant will not produce brilliancy, unless your understanding of brilliancy is made larger, higher and finer. …. When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

~ Christian D. Larson

A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of the china shop it's blundering into. And it knows that no matter how well prepared it is -- no matter how ruthlessly it has held its projections up to intelligent scrutiny -- the place it is headed for is going to very different from the place it imagined. The shortfall between the imagined and the real, multiplied by the violence of one's intent, equals the evil one will do.

~ George Saunders

In the future system, you will decide how your bodies look and feel, but only til then will you have the choice.

~ David L. Lloyd

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

~ David L. Lloyd