Lester Cole Quotes

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

I love the human mind.

I arrive a month premature, with my dad's brains but not much else.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

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.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

In mathematics and science, there is no difference in the intelligence of men and women. The difference in genes between men and women is simply the Y chromosome, which has nothing to do with intelligence.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

A second-class intellect—but a first-class temperament!

In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.

I'm not angry or anything at Sonnen, but I will say one thing - I hope nobody gets offended; I don't wanna sound disgusting, and I am certainly not fan of any anthropologic theories - but you can see on that guy's face that he is limited and stupid, and his IQ is not higher than the size of the shoes he's wearing.

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

We use only 10% of our brains... Imagine how smart we would be if we used the other 60%!