Henri Bergson Quotes

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

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

We need to make a greater investment in human intelligence.

I just like working with smart people.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I'm not too unintelligent.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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.

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

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.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Don’t think that intelligence stops with allies.

Intelligence is capital.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.