Walt Disney: ‘The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.’
Benjamin Graham: ‘Creativity is the catalyst for brilliant accomplishments, but it is also the greatest obstacle.’
Xunzi: ‘A good mind possesses a kingdom.’
Babe Ruth: ‘Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.’
Henry Ford: ‘Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.’
Leonard Sweet: ‘Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.’
Everyone appreciates a good quotation, especially one that sounds intelligent and helps you appear intelligent when you use it. When you’re trying to make a point in discussion, quotes are excellent tools to use. A quote provides a second viewpoint that supports your argument.
The best quotations lighten the tone and support a point with a dash of humor. These wise quotes are not only wise but also inspiring, intelligent and intellectual.
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Some quotes inside this book:
Albert Einstein: ‘Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.’
Scott Belsky: ‘We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.’
Marya Mannes: ‘Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.’
Jean Piaget: ‘Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.’
Leo Buscaglia: ‘Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.’
Albert Einstein: ‘The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.’
Friedrich Nietzsche: ‘When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it’s the right thing to do.’
Mark Twain: ‘Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.’
Eric Temple Bell: ‘One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.’
Adlai E. Stevenson: ‘Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.’
Jimi Hendrix: ‘I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.’
Luc de Clapiers: ‘A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.’
John F. Kennedy: ‘Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.’
Joe Frazier: ‘Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.’
Lisa Kudrow: ‘Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.’
Michael Bassey Johnson: ‘Don’t try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.’
Michael Jordan: ‘Genius creates, and taste preserves.’
Jean Piaget: ‘An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.’
Mason Cooley: ‘The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.’
Tina Fey: ‘The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.’
James Naismith: ‘The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.’
Aldous Huxley: ‘A goal is a dream with a deadline.’
Robert Kiyosaki: ‘Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.’
George Orwell: ‘Belief is the death of intelligence.’
Cormac McCarthy: ‘We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.’
