Ralph Waldo Emerson on Intelligence
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
- George-Louis de Buffon
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
- Emerson M. Pugh
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Woodrow Wilson
Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
- Alexander Pope