Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 64 Intelligence quotesIntelligence QuotesIntelligence Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.~ John Fiske If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.~ Erich Fromm If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.~ Ulysses S. Grant Certain things we cannot accomplish… by any process of government. We cannot legislate intelligence. We cannot legislate morality. No, and we cannot legislate loyalty, for loyalty is a kind of morality.~ A. Whitney Griswold The most fluent talkers or the most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.~ William Hazlitt Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.~ Robert A. Heinlein Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.~ Heraclitus Another perceived attribute of intellectuals that needs rethinking and revision: the assumption that they are deeply and unequivocally committed to personal, political and intellectual freedom and especially free expression…many Western intellectuals’ commitment to intellectual freedom is selective at best.~ Paul Hollander The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.~ Robert G. Ingersoll There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. Ingersoll You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intelligence.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.~ Carl Jung College isn't the place to go for ideas.~ Helen Keller Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.~ C. S. Lewis Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.~ Walter Lippmann The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.~ H. P. Lovecraft The most merciless thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.~ H. P. Lovecraft But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.~ James Madison A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.~ Jacques Maritain Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print