Concepts Quote by Isabel Briggs Myers

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

— George Santayana

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like…

— Walter Lippmann

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

— Robert Sternberg

Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

— Marvin Minsky

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

— Laurence J. Peter

What needs to be debated is whether IQ tests, as currently designed, are fit for purpose, and capable of measuring the changing nature of…

— David Olusoga

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

— Ingrid Newkirk

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is…

— Charles Murray

...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…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

— Bertolt Brecht

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…

— Jon Lovett

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

— A. N. Wilson