"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."
~~~~~ Russell Lynes
Showing posts with label intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intelligence. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Thought for Today
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Thought for Today
"'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'"
~~~~~ John Abbott
Monday, October 14, 2013
Thought for Today
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
~~~~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Thought for Today
"Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious."
~~~~~ Charles Munch
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Thought for Today
"There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."
~~~~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Thought for Today
"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."
~~~~~ Julius Rosenwald
Monday, September 12, 2011
Thought for Today
"Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got."
~~~~~ Lewis B. Hershey
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Thought for Today
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
~~~~~ Bertrand Russell
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thought for Today
"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
~~~~~ George Orwell
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thought for Today
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
~~~~~ Karl A. Menninger
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Thought for Today
"You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people."
~~~~~ Will Rogers
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Thought for Today
"There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
~~~~~ H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Thought for Today
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
~~~~~ Bernard M. Baruch
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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