If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom
The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Learning, Personal Improvement, Thought | Inquiry
The wise know what to be thinking about, whereas the merely intelligent only know how to think.
Author: Scott Berkun | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Thought | Inquiry, Wisdom
There is a basic social divide between those for whom life is an accrual of fresh experience and knowledge, and those for whom maturity is a process of mental atrophy. The shift toward the latter category is frightening.
Author: Andrew Solomon | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subject: Intelligence | Knowledge
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Subject: Intelligence | Knowledge
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Author: Albert Einstein | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.
Knowingness is murderous of wonder and of insight, and ultimately it does a violent disservice to that which it sought to serve.
Our most basic choice, the one that grounds all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do … [ Read more ]
Author: Mark Kingwell | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Meaning, Personal Improvement, Philosophy