Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

People are not stupid.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

I'm a little smarter than most.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.

I try to be very smart and use wisdom about everything.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.