David Lange Quotes

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

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

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

After all, Franklin [Delano Roosevelt] isn't very bright.

Governor [Robert R.] Livingston is confessedly a Man of the first rate talents, but he appears to me rather to indulge a sportiveness of wit, than a strength of thinking

It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.

There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

If I have 1% of my dad's brain, I'll be happy. He's so quick.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

[Warren] Harding is incapable of thought, because he has nothing to think with.

His colleagues [cannot] compare with him in that acuteness and energy of mind with which he devotes himself to so many topics injurious to the strength and welfare of the state.

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Pep is highly intelligent.

A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Kids aren't dumb - they might not get something, but they're going to figure it out.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.