Intelligence Quote by Mark Haddon

“How wise people thought themselves when they often knew nothing about what they were talking!”

— Amy Steedman

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly , and from sources…

— Ann Patchett

“The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.”

— Danielle Rohr

“Questioning a genius with logic limits his imagination.”

— Vasilios Karpos

“Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.”

— R. Curtis Venture

“Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could…

— Eldon Taylor

“The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“Ridcully was simple-minded. This doesn’t mean stupid. It just meant that he could only think properly about things if he cut away all the…

— Terry Pratchett

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The most mind-blowing part of it all was the fact that he seemed to think I was the one thing he needed to make…

— Kelly Oram