This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Marilyn vos Savant, born Marilyn Mach
There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.
Courage | Intelligence | Plenty | World |
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Education | Intelligence | Necessity | Strength | Tenderness |
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone... Reason is immortal, all else mortal.
Richard Bach, fully Richard David Bach
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!
Excellence | Ignorance | Intelligence | Skill | Excellence | Learn |
Intellect... is a critical, creative, and contemplative side of minds. Whereas intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, reorder, adjust, intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes, imagines. Intelligence will seize the immediate meaning in a situation and evaluate it. Intellect evaluates evaluations, and looks for the meanings of situations as a whole.
Intelligence | Looks | Meaning | Will | Intellect |
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
There is no truer index to intelligence than good behavior.
Behavior | Good | Intelligence |
Isaac Newton, fully Sir Isaac Newton
The existence of a Being endowed with intelligence and wisdom is a necessary inference from a study of celestial mechanics.
Existence | Intelligence | Study | Wisdom |
It is safe to say that the prosperity of our people depends directly on the energy and intelligence with which our natural resources are used. It is equally clear that these resources are the final basis of national power and perpetuity. Finally, it is ominously evident that these resources are in the course of rapid exhaustion.
Energy | Intelligence | People | Power | Prosperity | Safe |
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
Intelligence | Tradition | Worth |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
I find in the universe so many forms of order, organization, system, law, and adjustment of means to ends, that I believe in a cosmic intelligence and I conceive God as the life, mind, order, and law of the world.
Ends | God | Intelligence | Law | Life | Life | Means | Mind | Order | Organization | System | Universe | World | God |
William Feather, fully William A. Feather
One of the indictments of civilization is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Intelligence | Sense |
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Intelligence | People | Power |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue. Both systems are developing into managerial societies, their inhabitants well fed, well clad, having their wishes satisfied, and not having wishes that cannot be satisfied. Men are increasingly automatons, who make machines which act like men and produce men who act like machines; there reason deteriorates while their intelligence rises, thus creating the dangerous situation of equipping man with the greatest material power without the wisdom to use it.
Alienation | Capitalism | Intelligence | Machines | Man | Men | Power | Reason | Will | Wisdom | Wishes |
The difference between a divine intelligence immanent in the world and one that transcends it is not negligible, but it is still only a difference in interpretation. The "raw data" for both positions is the same: it's the spiritual experience, a quantum communion with universal oneness. In the Western religious perspective this is communion with the spirit that infuses the cosmos, identified as God.
Intelligence | Spirit | World |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
Reason is man’s faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man’s ability to manipulate the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully; the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
Ability | Contradiction | Intelligence | Reason | World |
Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.
Intelligence | Universe |
I am in perfect harmony with the working of the law, for I know that Infinite Intelligence knows nothing of obstacles, time or space. It knows only completion.
Harmony | Intelligence | Nothing | Time |
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Failure | Intelligence | Power | Will | Failure |
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
Civilization | Intelligence | Mind | Progress | Wealth |