Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

It is intelligence that brings order, not discipline.

He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Docility is the observable half of reason.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.