Quotes About Insight

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It's always smarter than we are.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

I think human intelligence is the only one that will actually tell you intent.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.