Intelligence quotes

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Albert Einstein

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Socrates

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Blaise Pascal

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

Sigmund Freud

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Victor Hugo

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

Woodrow Wilson

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

Ed Parker

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Wayne Dyer

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Julius Charles Hare

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Ernest Newman

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Don Herold

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

 Lastly some of my personal favourites:

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Francis Bacon

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Lena Horne

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

Addiction !

 It's strange to find that usually high functioning brains are prone to addiction. The adreline rush in meeting deadlines and urge for perfection is key to this fact.When a high functioning brain is kept idle, the symptoms are like a drug addiction symptoms. The uneasiness, deep urge to find something to work on, mood swings, getting to alcohol,etc. are few outcomes that are seen. People with long working hours, people who work under pressure (it can be external or internal), people who works for perfection, are few class of people who are more prone to work addiction. When this addiction reaches a height, person starts spending more time at work and cherish that time instead of indulging into social activities and family.

A perfect balance as written in few notable books implies :

"A man is balanced if he is busy while he is alone and is quiet and peaceful while he is in the middle of the crowd."

This implies when a person can learn to remain busy with his thoughts even when he is alone and can control  his thoughts while he is surrounded by other people, is a balanced one. A high functioning brain is not a gift, it can be achieved by continuously keeping it indulged in mental exercise, by continuously sharpening it and by continuous learning. But the thing we forget to mention is that it should be kept under control. I found people around me who have great brains but to keep themselves busy they do things and sometimes when it is heightened they are unable to control the thoughts coming to their minds. Once negative thoughts start coming, these people who can do myriad productive things and can make their life useful, turn into useless trash, wasting their valuable time and resources.

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http://xystplayer.blogspot.in/2014/09/intelligent-mind-is-gift-or-cruse-part-i.html

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