Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.

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.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. That's what you have to do: you have to be confident in your potential and aware of your inexperience.

You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.

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.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

My brain is open.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

I like thinking and being able to answer questions that are tough to answer. You have to try to figure out how to get a good answer and look intelligent.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the occasional fulfillment of this function, to treasure ancient thoughts of others, to remember with incredulous amazement that the doctor universal is thought, is to confess our languor or barbarism. Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be." (Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote, 1939)

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.

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.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.