#intelligence

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#i #just #longer #problems #smart

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#community #concerns #current #efforts #i

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ability #first-rate #function #hold #ideas

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#adult #average #between #child #contrast

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#does #gained #hearing #intellect #rest

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #book #boost #confused #confusion

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#intelligence #life-lessons #funny

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#acting #commonplace #crowd #each #far

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#almost #any #depends #does #drive