Umar Quotes

You can tell a dumb guy a mile away.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

To see the world is to judge the judges.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

I think people got more common sense than people give 'em credit for.

I have my sympathies and also my critical views, and they aren't much of a secret, but my first job is to see and hear and think about what I've seen and heard.

Some information is important, and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other.

Over the years, I paid careful attention in client meetings and jotted down things that quite didn't make sense. And I had the courage to raise questions and to be skeptical when something didn't add up.

I really don't think art is good at answering questions. It's much better at posing questions - and even better at simply asking people to open their eyes.

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Intellect is not wisdom.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.