View Quote
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
View Quote
Somerset Maugham, Mr. Harrington’s Washing (in Collected Short Stories 3), p. 189
View Quote
Somerset Maugham, The Door of Opportunity (in Collected Short Stories 2), p. 406
View Quote
Spiritual intelligence
View Quote
Stephen Lea****, The Garden of Folly, "The Perfect Salesman" (1924).
View Quote
Strength cannot keep pace with intelligence.
View Quote
Sumerian proverb from Urim, Text online at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
View Quote
Sumerian proverb from Urim, Text online at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.
View Quote
Susan Sontag, "Women, the Arts, & the Politics of Culture: An Interview with Susan Sontag" in Salmagundi, No. 31-32 (Fall/Winter 1975), p. 29; later published in Conversations with Susan Sontag (1995) edited by Leland A. Poague, p. 77.
View Quote
The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
View Quote
The ego may be clever, but it is not intelligent. Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self interest, and it is extremely shortsighted. Most politicians and business people are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is shortlived and always turns out to be eventually self defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence unites.
View Quote
The eulogies of my intelligence are positively intended to evade the question “Is what she says true?”
View Quote
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
View Quote
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
View Quote
The intellect has only one failing, which to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest instance of this. If his heart had borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of the greatest men of history.