(1424 quotes found)
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
Napoleon Hill
“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
Sloan Wilson
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”
Abigail Adams
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will”
Antonio Gramsci
“Belief is the death of intelligence”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt