Logo
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli
There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things

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

Other quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Men
Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Read Quote

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Nature
Author
Niccolo Machiavelli
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
good
category

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. – Sallust

Category:
good

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who dont vote. – William E. Simon

Category:
good

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. – Mike Tyson

Category:
good

A good artist should be isolated. If he isnt isolated, something is wrong. – Orson Welles

Category:
good

Random Quotes

I was the first person to go to university from my family. – Ellie Goulding

Category:
Family

I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales – when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, theres something different about it. And I miss the simple life. – Ellie Goulding

Category:
Music

Hip-hops always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music its always had a lot of positivity. – LL Cool J

Category:
History

Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. – Martin Luther

Category:
Peace