Our intellect is like a judge who decides the ‘right’ course of action. There is no dearth of information or knowledge in the world, and the mind is where all this is stored. A simple computer can beat the mind by storing many times more informat...
The most interesting aspect of leadership is that it cannot be predicted. All great leaders had been quite ordinary in their early years. It was only when they became leaders that people started recognising them as leaders. It is difficult to identif...
Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof! You are in deep, ice-cold water frozen like a dead...
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer refuted a myth prevalent among undergraduates about the vocabulary that professors find mos...
The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferre...
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent...
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world dimi...
Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.
Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Intelligence is the key to achieve your dreams.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
