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"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."

Edward Thorndike 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 Edward Thorndike

• "Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."

• "Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."

• "There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."

• "Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."

• "The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."