Intelligence Quotes - Page 3

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Intelligence is not a science.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Man's brain is, after all, the greatest natural resource.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.

Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

Barbershop conversations are irrefutable proof that heads exist for the sake of hair.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

We must stop planning, plotting and scheming, and let Infinite Intelligence solve the problem in its own way.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. Their random combinations are driven by forces we don't know about.