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Intelligence Quotes by Albert Einstein
- If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
- The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind.…
- Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than…
- the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,…
- The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
- I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.
- Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
- A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be…
- Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices…
- During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them…
- The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To…
- To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the…
- Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.…
- If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it…
- Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
- In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
- Not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
More Intelligence Quotes
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously… — Abigail Adams
- It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than… — Dick Cheney