Archive for the ‘Intelligence’ Category

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

Albert Einstein on Intelligence

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

- Albert Einstein

Aristotle on Intelligence

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Wit is educated insolence.

- Aristotle

Woodrow Wilson on Intelligence

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

- Woodrow Wilson

Josh Billings on Intelligence

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.

- Josh Billings

Alexander Pope on Intelligence

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

- Alexander Pope