Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Success in investing doesn’t correlate with I. Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Intelligence doesn't just mean tracking down terrorists; It means finding out what is in people's hearts and minds and discovering the complexity of most issues.
Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.
I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
A multidisciplinary study group. . . estimated that it would be 1980 before developments in artificial intelligence make it possible for machines alone to do much thinking or problem solving of military significance. That would leave, say, five years to develop man-computer symbiosis and 15 years to use it. The 15 may be 10 or 500, but those years should be intellectually the most creative and exciting in the history of mankind.