At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second rate, by no degree of effort or assiduity to be made the equal of abilities like Bonbright's.
James Gould CozzensTag: intelligence
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.
James Gould CozzensTag: intelligence
The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.
Abigail AdamsTag: intelligence trial challenge
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.
Edgar Allan PoeTag: intelligence greatness insanity sanity
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie CurieTag: intelligence humanity ideas gossip curiousity
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: science truth intelligence success failure scientific-process
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Walter H. CottinghamTag: intelligence paraphrased ambition misattributed-salvador-dali
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
H.G. WellsTag: science intelligence human-nature
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
Aldous HuxleyTag: intelligence religion magic superstition
The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry PratchettTag: intelligence people crowds mob-rule mobs
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