Insightful Reasoning Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

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

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

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

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

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

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.

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.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.