Famous Quotes

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

Alfred North Whitehead on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

More quotes by Alfred North Whitehead

• "Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

• "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

• "Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."

• "It is the business of the future to be dangerous and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties."

• "The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."