Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

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

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

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.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

I think like a detective.

People are not stupid.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

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.

Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

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.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.