Intellect, Judgement

"Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Beware of women who read-they also think."

Anne Holt

Intellect, Judgement

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

Laurence J. Peter

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities."

Paul Eldridge "Maxims for a Modern Man"

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."

Henrik Tikkanen

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

Helen Keller

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wisdom does not trust to probabilities; it always marches in the midday light of reason."

Baltasar Gracian

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."

Brian Tracy

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Common sense is not really so common."

Antoine Amauld "The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 2.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason, vi. To weigh probabilities in the scales of desire."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Robert South

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Various

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."

Kevin Smith

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

Dwight David Eisenhower

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Abba Eban

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Intellect, Judgement

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

Edward de Bono

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."

St. Thomas Aquinas

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant."

Alan Greenspan

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."

Various Proverbs

Education

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."

Fran Lebowitz "Social Studies"

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Lee Frost

Intellect, Judgement

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious."

P. D. Ouspensky

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."

Jorge Luis Borges

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."

Cesare Lombroso

Intellect, Judgement

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

Ayn Rand

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."

St. Thomas Aquinas "Summa Theologiae"

Good and Evil

Intellect, Judgement

Law and Crime

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Sklodowska-Curie-Maria

Courage and Fear

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man who thinks he is smarter than his wife, has a very smart wife!"

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Intellect, Judgement

Marriage

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"It is not at all simple to understand the simple."

Eric Hoffer

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?"

Fran Lebowitz

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most. "

Ann Landers

Intellect, Judgement

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Understanding is a two-way street."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."

George Savile

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"An open mind does not always require an open mouth."

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Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

Gene Fowler

Friendship and Hostility

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn`t work if it`s not open."

Frank Zappa

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."

William James "Principles of Psychology"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number."

Alexis Carrel

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Most open minds should be closed for repair."

Wilson Mizner

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 2.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Common sense is genius dressed up in work clothes."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect, Judgement

Talent and Genius

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood."

Chinese Proverbs

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently."

Henry Ford

Defeates and Mistakes

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Imagination is intelligence having fun."

George Scialabba

Intellect, Judgement

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living."

Charles F. Kettering

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)