Intelligence Quotes

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

Sigmund Freud

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'"

Maria Montessori

"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."

Maria Montessori

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Arthur Conan Doyle

"It is the brain, the little grey cells on which one must rely."

Agatha Christie

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

Dr. Seuss

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

Warren Buffett

"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up."

Charlie Munger

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

Peter Drucker

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

Alvin Toffler

"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, 'We've always done it this way.'"

Grace Hopper

"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show."

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

Henry Ford

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Abigail Adams

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

Alexander Graham Bell

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

Kahlil Gibran

"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket."

Lord Chesterfield

"To teach is to learn twice."

Joseph Joubert

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Levis