Willie Cauley-Stein Quotes

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.

I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Writing's a great skill, but thinking's a better one.

I like to figure things out and solve problems.

I don't have any magical ability. I look at a problem, play with it, work out a strategy.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

My brain power depends on my retained mastery of analyzing in detail what's happening in my world and in my mind and body. I must continue to practice to retain my constructive and analytic powers. The goal is to be a master of my environment.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

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

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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.

I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.