Quote of Niccolo Machiavelli - There are three kinds of intelligence:...

Biography - Niccolo Machiavelli:

Italian diplomat, politician, philosopher, humanist and writer.
Born: 1469 - Died: 1527
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Italy
Italy

Source: The Prince

Quote

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Translation

(French, German)

Il y a trois sortes d'esprit. Les uns entendent par eux-mêmes ; les autres comprennent tout ce qu'on leur montre ; et quelques uns n'entendent, ni par eux, ni par autrui. Les premiers sont excellents, les seconds sont bons, et les derniers inutiles.”
Nicolas Machiavel - Le Prince

Es gibt drei Arten der Intelligenz: die eine versteht alles von selber, die zweite vermag zu begreifen, was andere erkennen, und die dritte begreift weder von selber noch mit Hilfe anderer.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - Der Fürst

Quotes for: to understand:

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.”
Richard Phillips Feynman

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.”
Albert Einstein

It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”
Soren Kierkegaard - Journals

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

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Quotes about intelligence:

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.”
Sigmund Freud

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Bertrand Russell

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Niccolo Machiavelli also said...

Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.”
Niccolo Machiavelli

to be

There are two ways of contesting, the one by the law, the other by force; the first method is proper to men, the second to beasts.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
Niccolo Machiavelli

love

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince

Prudence

We do not suffer from things to which we are accustomed.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War

habit

Where nature is lacking, work supplies.”
Niccolo Machiavelli - The Art of War

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