There are posts in many blogs that everyone must read again and again.
It would be good if WordPress allowed bloggers to reblog their posts SEVERAL times!
I have about 700 posts on this blog. It is impractical to place links to them on pages.
Some important posts I already reblogged.
Today I want to introduce to you “Quotes about intelligence”.
Please click HERE to read them. I hope that you’ll find them interesting.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT? by JF
I got an email from my friend with a story that l liked.
Here is the story:
“A farmer died leaving his 17 horses to his three sons.
When his sons opened up the Will it read:
My eldest son should get 1/2 (half) of total horses;
My middle son should get 1/3rd (one-third) of total horses;
My youngest son should get 1/9th (one-ninth) of total horses.
As it’s impossible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9, the three sons started to fight with each other.
So, they decided to go to a friend who they considered quite smart, to see if he could work it out for them.
The farmer friend read the Will patiently, after giving due thought, he brought one of his own horses over and added it to the 17.
That increased the total to 18 horses.
Now, he divided the horses according to their father’s Will.
Half of 18 = 9. So he gave the eldest son 9 horses.
1/3rd of 18 = 6. So he gave the middle son 6 horses.
1/9th of 18 = 2. So he gave the youngest son 2 horses.
Now add up how many horses they have:
Eldest son……..9
Middle son…….6
Youngest son…2
TOTAL ….…….17
This leaves one horse over, so the farmer friend takes his horse back to his farm.
Problem Solved!
Moral:
The attitude of negotiation and problem solving is to find the 18th horse i.e. the common ground.
Once a person is able to find the 18th horse the issue resolved.
It is difficult at times.
However, to reach a solution, the first step is to believe that there is a solution.
If we think that there is no solution, we won’t be able to reach any!
That’s clever mathematics!”
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
