Quotes About Intelligence

Intelligence exhibited by human beings originates and perpetuates itself "neither with knowledge of the self nor of things as such but with knowledge of their interaction, and it is by orienting itself simultaneously toward the two poles of that interaction that intelligence organizes the world by organizing itself" (CR, pp. 354–355).

The three volumes on infancy focus on different aspects of infants' cognitive development. Whereas OI examines the coordination and differentiation of sensorimotor schemes of practical intelligence, CR studies how practical intelligence constructs the concepts of object, space, causality, and time. PDI, in turn, is mainly devoted to the emergence of symbols in the context of the development of imitation and play.

In fact, within Piaget's developmental epistemology, sensorimotor intelligence development takes up a systematic place: It is the centerpiece that bridges biological and psychological development.

In his early work, he focused on verbal exchanges in order to understand the logical, rational thought of the child. However, when he later studied the development of intelligence in infants, he realized that to fully understand the origins of the operations of verbal thought one has to first examine the manipulation and experimentation with objects (Piaget, 1952).

Piaget termed this action logic sensorimotor intelligence, and the three volumes on infancy "form one entity dedicated to the beginnings of intelligence, that is to say, to the various manifestations of sensorimotor intelligence and to the most elementary forms of expression" (OI, p. ix).

In Piaget's developmental epistemology, sensorimotor intelligence serves as a bridge between biological functioning and rational thought.

Furthermore, biological functioning, sensorimotor intelligence, and rational thought are based on the same self-organizing processes (i.e., functional invariants).

First, higher mental functions are grounded in and emerge out of a practical, prereflective form of intelligence.

intelligence organizes the world by organizing itself" (CR, pp.

Sensory-motor intelligence aims at success and not at truth; it finds its satisfaction in the achievement of the practical aim pursued, and not in recognition (classification) or explanation. It is an intelligence only lived and not thought. (PDI, p. 238; cf. OI, p. 240)

If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.

The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people. The Father of his Country, in his Farewell Address, uses this language: Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.

Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate.

It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

If the human brain were simple enough to understand, we'd be so simple we couldn't.

A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Intelligence consists in recognizing opportunity

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence

A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

Fools copy proverbs