Quotes About Insight

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Our biggest problem is that our intelligence is not intelligent

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

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

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

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

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.

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

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

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

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

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.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination