Remy de Gourmont Quotes

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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

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.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

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

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

My opponent has all the intellectual rigor of an amoeba.

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

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

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

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.

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

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

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.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.

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

[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.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you.