Avoiding Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.'…

— Michael Crichton

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

— Vivienne Westwood

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your…

— Brian Greene

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them

— Raheel Farooq

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even…

— Isaac Asimov

Intelligence is like pornography. I can't define it, but I know if when I see it.

— Jack McDevitt

Intelligence is the capacity to observe that some thought or inspiration you have experienced, bears repeating to another.

— Anonymous

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific,…

— Esther Hicks

The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always dead sure about every damn thing they are doing in their…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Intelligence is just a simple act of differentiating between the knowing ability and the understanding capability of the people for simply knowing their understanding…

— Anuj Somany