Sigmund Freud Quotes

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

I took a test once; they said I was a genius.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Little boys have amazing minds.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Yeah, I'm very smart.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

I never said I was a genius.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

If he is 6 feet 4 inches high, he is only a dwarf in mind.

Intelligence is both critical and costly.

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.

I'm a bordering genius.

I feel like, for me, I've become smarter. I've become a more intelligent wrestler. I've become a more intelligent performer, and I think that shows.

I used to be smart.

I've obviously got the brains. I've got the cardio.

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.