Quotes About Intelligence

The intelligent practice of self-control, quickly leads to a knowledge of one's interior thought-forces, and, later on, to the acquisition of that power by which they are rightly employed and directed.

No individual may have great power without availing himself of the "Master Mind." In a preceding chapter, instructions were given for the creation of PLANS for the purpose of translating DESIRE into its monetary equivalent. If you carry out these instructions with PERSISTENCE and intelligence, and use discrimination in the selection of your "Master Mind" group, your objective will have been half-way reached, even before you begin to recognize it.

Remember, also, that every time you open your mouth in the presence of a person who has an abun­dance of knowledge, you display to that person, your exact stock of knowledge, or your LACK of it!

Money is worth no more than brains. It is often worth much less.

POWER (man-power) is ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE, EXPRESSED THROUGH INTELLIGENT EFFORTS!

CREATIVE IMAGINATION—Through the faculty of Creative Imagination, the finite human mind has direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

FAITH is the only agency through which the cosmic force of Infinite Intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches! Faith is the basis of all "miracles," and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science! Faith is the only known antidote for failure! Faith is the element, the "chemical" which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader.

The man who can intelligently use the knowledge possessed by another is as much or more a man of education as the person who merely has the knowledge but does not know what to do with it. The

mente y su propio cerebro. Debe usarlo y tomar sus propias decisiones. Si necesita datos o información de otras personas para poder tomar decisiones, tal y como probablemente requerirá en muchas ocasiones, debe adquirir estos datos u obtener la información que necesita discretamente, sin revelar su propósito.

A better definition of a genius is, "a man who has discovered how to increase the intensity of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of thought.

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse.

The epiphany I had in my career in randomness came when I understood that I was not intelligent enough, nor strong enough, to even try to fight my emotions.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

keeping one's distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).

common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age eighteen. Furthermore, What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.

The left holds that because markets are stupid models should be smart; the right believes that because models are stupid markets should be smart. Alas, it never hit both sides that both markets and models are very stupid.

Mental effort moves us into higher gear, activating more vigorous and more analytical brain machinery.

an ad hominen attack against an intellectual, not against an idea, is highly flattering. It indicates that the person does not have anything intelligent to say about your message.