“Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.”
Intelligence comes in more flavors than IQ tests can measure. These quotes explore different kinds of smarts — emotional, creative, street, academic — and the humbling realization that the smartest people are usually the ones who know how much they do not know.
“I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.”
“Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.”
“Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory even more are false, and most are uncertain.”
“We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.”
“Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.”
“If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.”
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
“Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.”
“I like shows that have some level of intelligence to them. When it's not as predictable, when you don't know what's coming at you.”
“If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.”
“Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.”