intelligence Quotes

Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was your brain wired for thinking. And it's the brain wiring that I'm more interested in rather than the facts that come out of the curriculum or the lesson plan that's been proposed.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.