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Letter "I" » Intelligence
«Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.»
«Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
| About:
Intelligence
«Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
quickness, Seeing Things
«Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.»
«Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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Intelligence,
Truth
| Keywords:
admitted, attachment, contain, diffident, inlet, inlets, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating
«Intelligence is nothing without delight.»
Author: Paul Claudel
| About:
Intelligence
«Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.»
«Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, distinct, quickness, wisely
«Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Courtesy,
Intelligence
| Keywords:
combined, courtesy, rooming house, wooden
«Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Cleverness,
Evil,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Misfortune
| Keywords:
accompanied, excessive, misfortune, training
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