Archive for the ‘Intelligence’ Category

Georg C. Lichtenberg on Intelligence

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Aldous Huxley on Intelligence

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

- Aldous Huxley

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Intelligence

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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E. B. White on Intelligence

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

- E. B. White

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Sigmund Freud on Intelligence

Monday, July 21st, 2008

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

- Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud on Intelligence

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

- Sigmund Freud

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Intelligence

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don Herold on Intelligence

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

- Don Herold

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George-Louis de Buffon on Intelligence

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.

- George-Louis de Buffon

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Emerson M. Pugh on Intelligence

Friday, September 7th, 2007

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.

- Emerson M. Pugh