All Quotes By Tag: Intelligence

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”

“Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”

“We should change the name of AR-15s to ‘Marco Rubio’ because they are so easy to buy”

“We’re very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they’re beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can’t see them under our big noses.”

“Cleverness isn’t always true nor is the truth always clever.”

“I didn’t set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. ”

“In God’s eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.”

“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”

“Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn’t survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn’t pretend, he simply nullifies his own position.”

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”