252 quotes found
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
“It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.”
“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thingafter theyve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”
“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itsel...”
“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”
“The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding s...”
“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmle...”
“The willingness to change ones mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.”
“Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.”
“Sometimes people think youre smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.”
“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.”
“I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.”
“With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people youre parodying.”
“Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills”
“HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit”
“It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.”
“Id been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins Id seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a cha...”
“...intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability 'to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly'. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows th...”
“Studies show that the IQ range of most creative people is surprisingly narrow, around 120 to 130. Higher IQs can perform certain kinds of tasks better--logic, feats of memory, and so on. But if the...”
