Howard Gardner Quotes

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

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

Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

Nobody has a money problem - there are only idea problems.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.

At YC we have this public phrase, and it's relentlessly resourceful.

You show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

I’m not, like, that smart.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.