intelligence Quotes

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive.

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

There were some great clinicians in the 20th century - great men. Freud was a genius; Jung was a genius, Carl Rogers was a genius - there's a half-dozen psychologists of the 1950s and humanists of the 1960s.