Applications Quote by René Descartes

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For…

— Rene Descartes

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“He was aware that the essence of proper intelligence was the embrace of contradiction. And the recognition of complexity was to be balanced against…

— Colum McCann

“How deeply (beyond words) he speaks to us about the mysteries of our common human nature. And how unstrained and easy his greatness is.”

— Saul Bellow

“Just to give you a general idea, he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if…

— Aldous Huxley

“Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence,…

— Bertrand Russell

“Man can never eliminate the necessity of using his own intelligence, regardless of how cleverly he tries!”      I”

— Raymond M. Smullyan

“The man is a genius, and geniuses don’t have to abide by the same rules as the rest of the world.”

— J.D. Robb

“One must admit that even among intellectuals there are sometimes highly intelligent men; this cannot be denied." (100)”

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“He was a man who formed opinions as he spoke them, or perhaps afterward, requiring him to ramble at length to grasp what he…

— Tom Rachman