Quotes on Intelligence
Posted by Jason | Posted in Quotes, Words Of Wisdom | Posted on 07-27-2009
Here are some quotes talking about intelligence, and the power it truly has:
Action is the real measure of intelligence. – Napoleon Hill
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. – Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. – Ronald Reagan
Wit is educated insolence. – Aristotle
Knowledge is power.
Nice quotes. Particularly like Emerson’s and White’s.
Napoleon Hill is listed first, and trumps the game here.
And it’s funny how Hill has a more practical take on intelligence than consensus-genius Einstein.
Einstein says imagination is more important than intelligence, and that seems to be true. But that’s only about the half of it. Hill, not in an ivory tower, says action is the most important trait in a person with intelligence.
One pictures a young Einstein, feverishly conceiving and fleshing out a Theory of Relativity. But it only bounces around his rigorous and lively imagination until he works out the math and painstakingly writes it all out for publication…
Hill might just as well have said: “Imagination, too, is nothing but a vapor without action.”