Michel de Montaigne Quotes

A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

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

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

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

People are not stupid.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere, you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

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.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Intelligence divorced from judgment produces nothing but foolishness.

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.