Quotes on Intelligence

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner ... on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of about 100 billion galaxies. ... That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit, and it is very good for us to understand that.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.