Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Date of birth: 1933-01-28
Date of death: 2004-12-28
Quotes number: 63
Nationality: American
Profession: Author
'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Intelligence is not a science.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.