People are smarter than you might think.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn’t do anything – it was given to you.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
You are just your intelligence.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.
Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
Strong government doesn’t mean simply military power or an efficient intelligence apparatus. Instead, it should mean effective, fair administration – in other words, ‘good governance.’
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating that intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.
In the long term, artificial intelligence and automation are going to be taking over so much of what gives humans a feeling of purpose.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright children are morally advanced.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it’s a choice.
