Intelligence

47 quotes.

• 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

• I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

  Socrates

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Attributed to Aristotle

• 95% of this game is half mental.

  Yogi Berra

• A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

  Alan J. Perlis, "Epigrams of Programming"

• Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

  John Dewey

• Don't play dumb. You're not as good at it as I am.

  Colonel Flagg, "M*A*S*H"

• Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  Anonymous

• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

  Elbert Hubbard

• Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

  Robert Graves

• George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning.

  Henry Fielding

• I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

  Woodrow Wilson

• If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

  Emerson Pugh

• If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as a man and then compare the relative brain size, we know find that the penguin's brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it was!

  Anonymous

• If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense.

  Ray Bradbury

• In fact, one thing that I have noticed . . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

  Brian E. Moore

• In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

  John Lilly

• Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong.

  David Fasold

• Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

  C. Archie Danielson

• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

  Arthur C. Clarke

• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

  George Bernard Shaw

• It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.

  Bronwyn Davies

• Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

  Flower A. Newhouse

• Like most intellectuals, he is imensely stupid.

  Marquise de Merteuil

• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  Henry Louis Mencken

• Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

  Remy De Gourmant

• Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

  Thomas Dewar

• Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

  Anonymous

• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.

  Anonymous

• That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

  Tom Gates

• The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

  Anonymous

• The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions -- which time and mediocrity can solve.

  Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Men and Events"

• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  Ed Parker

• The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

  Colin Wilson

• The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

• The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

  Anonymous

• The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.

  Anonymous

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

• There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

  Attributed to Albert Einstein

• There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

  Anonymous

• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

• When a stupid person is doing something he is ashamed of, it always declares that it is his job.

  Anonymous

• When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

  Jonathan Swift

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