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 More about this quote Tags: intelligence perception animals Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: humanity ignorance intelligence knowledge work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic, and intelligent who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspect of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. —Vincent Van Gogh More about this quote Tags: attention politics intelligence philosophy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg. —Tom Robbins More about this quote Tags: education intelligence sensitivity brain hear harmony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. —Stephen Leacock More about this quote Tags: intelligence money business advertising profit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: intelligence knowledge intellect interest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: learning intelligence sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm what you call a teleological existential atheist. I believe there's an intelligence to the universe with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: humor intelligence atheism New Jersey Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Someday we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. —Gabrielle Zevin in Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac More about this quote Tags: relationships learning intelligence time age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: wisdom intelligence perception generations age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. —Laurence J. Peter More about this quote Tags: intelligence knowledge competence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest. —Frank Sinatra More about this quote Tags: relationships intelligence women boredom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. —Ludwig Wittgenstein More about this quote Tags: humor intelligence accomplishment people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. —Pablo Picasso More about this quote Tags: intelligence skill art painting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures — our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity. —Thomas Moore More about this quote Tags: emotions intelligence children information care adults Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email