Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

We should speak as the populace, think as the learned.

Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people not - just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

He that never thinks can never be wise.

I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?

I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

Aristotle once said that wisdom (the ability to make good decisions) is a combination of experience plus reflection. The more time that you take to think about your experiences, the more vital lessons you will gain from them.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. ... I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.

You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may be compared to a chest filled with books, for he is the son of nature and the father of art.