Intelligence
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.”
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.”
Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
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.”
Bertrand Russell on Society
“Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.”
Samuel Butler on Trouble
“Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.”
Mark Twain Cynical Quote on Politics
“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Albert Einstein on Computers
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
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.”
Robertson Davies Cynical Quote
“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Intelligence
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Talent
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Euripides on Foolishness
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Laurence J. Peter on Clutter
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
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.”
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.”
Samuel Johnson on Curiosity
“A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.“
Elbert Hubbard on Experience
“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”
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.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Stephen Leacock on Advertising
“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”
Oscar Levant on Humility
“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.”