Intelligence
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Intelligence
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
Laurence J. Peter on Clutter
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
Euripides on Foolishness
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Victor Hugo on Thought
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Intelligence
“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.”
Oscar Levant on Humility
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”
Oscar Wilde on Society
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Carl Sagan on Intelligence
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Mark Twain on Humanity
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Life
“Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.“
William Feather on Society
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”
Albert Einstein on Computers
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
Samuel Johnson on Curiosity
“A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.“
Bertrand Russell on Society
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.”
E. F. Schumacher on Innovation
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Elbert Hubbard on Experience
“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Oscar Wilde on Knowledge
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Talent
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Stephen Leacock on Advertising
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Mark Twain Cynical Quote on Politics
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Robertson Davies Cynical Quote
“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”
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.”