“An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Ive concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we havent yet figured out how to… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms… — William James Copy Share Image
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can… — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber. — Ben Casnocha Copy Share Image
The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
The intelligent man without education is ahead of those who have their education only on the paper. — Tamerlan Kuzgov Copy Share Image
Making six-pack abs for no reason doesn't make sense. When you are young, it is possible. — R. Madhavan Copy Share Image
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people… — Robert Jarvik Copy Share Image
I keep trying to explain to people that the archetype of intelligence is not Dustin Hoffman in 'The Rain Man;' it is… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot. — Randall Dale Adams Copy Share Image
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character and intelligence are the poles you talent spins on, displaying your gifts. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
“I will give you intelligence," submitted the Creator, "enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it."… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“It isn't just physical ability and average intelligence but an insatiable appetite for success and an unflagging will power that would texture… — MP Anil Kumar Copy Share Image
“Understanding always makes one contented [absorbed]. At the last degree of contentment, there is Moksha [Liberation]. Intellect causes one to overflow and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image