Intelligence Quotes

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?''Of course. Who said it?''I don't know.''He was probably a coward,' she said. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

~ Ernest Hemingway

I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I. He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He suddenly recalled how he had once in the past been asked, Why do you hate so and so, so much? And he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I have hated him.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of our life and you find it in service.

~ Debasish Mridha

There is only one way to happiness and that is through service.

~ Debasish Mridha

Life becomes invaluable when we spend it in the service of others.

~ Debasish Mridha

Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.

~ Glenn Beck

Happiness is an inner perception, not an outer realistic conception.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not in perfection but it is a perception in the midst of imperfection.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

~ Debasish Mridha

Our happiness or misery depends upon our perception, not on the situation.

~ Debasish Mridha

Vision differentiates between a follower and a leader.

~ Debasish Mridha

Teaching is the best way to learn.

~ Debasish Mridha

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

~ Immanuel Kant

I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather than good was my first step. From there it was a steady march toward open-source everything. Now I see all the evil that secrecy enables in a corrupt Congress, a corrupt Executive, a corrupt economy, and a corrupt society. I see that the greatest service I or any other person can render to the Republic is to march firmly, non-violently, toward open-source everything.

~ Robert David Steele

In order for us to live within this finely balanced constellation of complex systems, in order for the Earth to show resilience and last for centuries into the future as an environment of human life, we have to embody three things: a respect for Earth systems and their details in balance; a commitment to discovering and sharing the truth and only the truth at all times about all things; and a commitment to doing no harm.

~ Robert David Steele

Our concept of truth becomes more universal as we reach higher levels of consciousness and awareness, taking in a wider spectrum of information and possibility. As we adapt a more expanded perspective on our reality, our concept of what is true and meaningful changes--from local to regional, regional to global, beyond global to the galaxy, and then to the cosmos.

~ Robert David Steele

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

~ Robert David Steele

Put in the bluntest possible terms, what I discovered was that the U.S. secret intelligence community was collecting only information it considered secret, while ignoring the eighty to ninety percent of the information in the world, in all languages, that was not secret.

~ Robert David Steele

The bottom line is that our government is not intelligent about how it pursues the public interest, because its decisions are not informed decisions (and its interest is generally not the public's).

~ Robert David Steele

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

~ Robert David Steele

There is nothing wrong with the United States--or the world at large--that cannot be stabilized and reconstructed by restoring the intelligence and integrity of all our organizations across the eight communities (academic, civil society, commerce, government, law enforcement, media, military, non-governmental/non-profit).

~ Robert David Steele

Integrity, in my view, starts with the individual human being and grows in a compounded manner from there. The citizen must be an 'intelligence minuteman.

~ Robert David Steele

Complexity demands resilience, and that's what panarchy offers. Resilience in the face of complexity is a challenge even when you apply rigorous intelligence and integrity to develop a coherent and flexible strategy.

~ Robert David Steele

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of that.

~ Robert David Steele

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

~ Robert David Steele

Open Everything' is everything--it is our mind, our heart, our soul, our destiny.

~ Robert David Steele

Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.

~ Douglas Adams

Bravery is not an act of intelligence, it is just selfishness and stupidity.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Your personal declaration of will is the first step in a seemingly impossible journey.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher.

~ Debasish Mridha

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

~ Chris Prentiss

There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

~ Debasish Mridha

I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you could walk right into your intelligence and nerdiness and self-doubt, and that could be funny.

~ George Saunders

Every part of you is a master intelligence and is speaking truth to you, and through you, at all times.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

~ Will Cuppy

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

~ Leonie Swann

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

~ Ovid