“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.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Intelligence
R. Buckminster Fuller on Life
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” Continue reading
Samuel Butler on Trouble
“Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.” Continue reading
William Feather on Society
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.” Continue reading
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Thoughts
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” Continue reading
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Intelligence
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” Continue reading
Robertson Davies Cynical Quote
“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.” Continue reading
Oscar Levant on Humility
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Computers
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” Continue reading
Elbert Hubbard on Experience
“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.” Continue reading
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