Intelligence Quotes

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Ethel Waters

All serious daring starts from within.

Eudora Welty

You exist only in what you do.

Federico Fellini

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Frederick the Great

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Francis Herbert Hedge

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

Friedrich August von Hayek

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Frank Lloyd Wright

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

Galileo Galilei

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

Gilbert Parker

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

Henry Van Dyke

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Herodotus

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wi...

Henry David Thoreau

To be is to do.

Immanuel Kant

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Isaac Newton

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Jean Giraudoux

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Jose Ortega y Gasset