Quotes About Cognition

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

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.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

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

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence which did not first pass through the senses.

The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.

True intelligence does not derive from thought. True intelligence uses thought.

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.