Georg C. Lichtenberg on Intelligence
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
- Aldous Huxley
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- E. B. White
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Sigmund Freud
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Sigmund Freud
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
- George-Louis de Buffon
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.
- Emerson M. Pugh