Verbal Intelligence Quotes

It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet. ~ Johanna Drucker

When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses. ~ Caroline A. Shearer

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. ~ Peggy Noonan

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful. ~ George Sand

I desire to tamper with the jury law. I wish to alter it as to put a premium on intelligence and character, and close the jury box against idiots, blacklegs, and people who do not read newspapers. ~ Mark Twain

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love. ~ Auliq Ice

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence. ~ Leonard Susskind

Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!) ~ Anne Frank

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never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It's the intelligence. It's the mind that makes it so. ~ Maggie Shayne

The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. ~ Stuart Sutherland

She skidded around a corner, slamming her shoulder into the wall and bouncing off of it without slowing.

Caleb?

Silence. Forty-six meters. A long stretch of hallway. She pushed faster, harder. Twenty meters.

She burst into the room in unison with a deafening crash of metal shearing metal. ~ G.S. Jennsen

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. ~ Herophilus

In all the universe only the human race has ever reached a high level of intelligence without reaching a high level of sanity. We are unique. ~ Fredric Brown

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence ~ Voltaire

If you're in the exorcism business, you must know a lot about demons." "Qliphoth," he says. "What?" "It's the proper word for what you call a demon. A demon is a bogeyman, an irrational entity representing fear in the collective unconscious. The Qliphoth are the castoffs of a greater entity. The old gods. They're dumb and their lack of intelligence makes them pure evil." "Okay, Daniel Webster. What happened at the exorcism?" Traven takes a breath and stares at his hands for a minute. "You should know that I don't follow the Church's standard exorcism rites. For instance, I seldom speak Latin. If Qliphoth really are lost fragments of the Angra Om Ya, the older dark gods, they're part of creatures millions of years old. Why would Latin have any effect on them? ~ Richard Kadrey

From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me. ~ Adolf Hitler

Give away everything to have it forever. ~ Debasish Mridha

In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. ~ Don Tapscott

Trust the unpredictable intelligence of healing, and know that their "symptoms" may get worse before they get better; energy may become more intense before it dies down. What appears now as chaos and disintegration may in fact be a necessary release and an intelligent reorganization of blocked systems. ~ Jeff Foster

My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence. ~ Liz Vassey

When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Mind is judgmental but heart is not so love with heart, not with mind. ~ Debasish Mridha

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying. ~ Susan Sontag

If you want to get drunk, get drunk with love. ~ Debasish Mridha

We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth, and spread the fragrance of happiness. ~ Debasish Mridha

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects. ~ Norman Cousins

The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life. ~ Aldous Huxley

When gratitude begins, then life finds the abundance and suffering ends. ~ Debasish Mridha

I must warn you, my story isn't a pretty one: abductions, time-traveling dragons, the Order of the Black Fez, highly verbal cats, a secret invisible city, condescending robots (condescending means they talk to you like you're an Idiot; wait, is it condescending of me to explain what condescending means?), and that's just for starters. - Willa Snap ~ Richard Due

Heart can't feel pain or sufferings when it is in love. ~ Debasish Mridha

Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life's problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we're looking for. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi

Creativity is about connecting things. The key to genius is knowing how to make those connections. ~ Nor Sanavongsay

Expect an army of Vigil drones, nearly as a many Praesidis guards, a Machim ground detachment of super-soldiers and at least one Inquisitor. Oh, and security barriers everywhere. Possibly some of those mechs we met on Helix Retention, too. You Humans have kicked off a shitstorm of epic proportions."

Alex spread her arms wide in an exagerrated shrug. "It's one of our best skills. ~ G.S. Jennsen

Dream for life; dream for love; dream for a better world. The purpose of life should not be only to achieve silver and gold. ~ Debasish Mridha

Let us hope for the best, let us dream and go for the quest. ~ Debasish Mridha

Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped. ~ Israelmore Ayivor

I was an Army intelligence agent and a veteran during the Cold War, assigned to West Germany. I was the chairman of the National Commission on Homeland Security and Terrorism for the United States for five years. I was a person who has dealt extensively with these homeland security issues. I was a governor during the 9/11 attack. ~ Jim Gilmore

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore. ~ Criss Jami

I would rather be kind and simple and poor than rude and rich. ~ Debasish Mridha

As others grown more intelligent under stress, I grow heavy, as if I were an animal on a chain. ~ Lillian Hellman

The US goverment proudly boasted Zero Tolerance and implemented the scheme with zero intelligence ~ Morrissey