Intelligence

95% of this game is half mental.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

Don't play dumb. You're not as good at it as I am.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.

If we increase the size of the penguin until it is the same height as a man and then compare the relative brain size, we know find that the penguin's brain is still smaller. But, and this is the point, it is larger than it was!

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair.;We'd never have a friendship.;We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical.;Well, that's nonsense.;You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

In fact, one thing that I have noticed . . . is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Like most intellectuals, he is imensely stupid.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Since when was genius found respectable?

Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward.

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions -- which time and mediocrity can solve.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.

The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.

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

There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking.

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

When a stupid person is doing something he is ashamed of, it always declares that it is his job.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.