Famous Quotes

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

Plutarch on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

More quotes by Plutarch

• "The wildest colts make the best horses."

• "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

• "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better."

• "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause."

• "Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."