Quotes About Reflection

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that, because of it, he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

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

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

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

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

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

A mind too active is no mind at all.

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.