Intelligence

"Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization."

"The Knowledgeable has the intelligent answer but only the intelligent one asks for a knowledgeable question."

"I've never, nor shall I ever, mourn the loss of a fool. Losing a fool, is the same as gaining, retaining, and reaffirming my intelligence."

"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing."

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

"Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life' banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'."

"Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know."

"Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion."

"All knowledge meets an end at the question '... Why?"

"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."

"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."

"Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?)."

"The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need to ask what is their story - often people have it written on their faces and you just have to take the time out to read it."

"Intelligence is not knowledge, but it is a state of mind."

"So the paradox goes: No man who is really ignorant is ever aware that he is ignorant. That is its finest, most faulty manifestation; there can be no true ignorance without first some claim of intelligence or consciousness, or superiority or enlightenment."

"The acquiring of intelligence doesn't require an institution if you got the heart to seek knowledge, and the balls to use it as wisely as those who came before you."

"In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life. Your life up to this point has given you all the experience you need to be intelligent, but you have to think about those experiences. If you don't think about them, you'll be psychologically unwell. If you do think about them, you will become not merely educated but intelligent."

"The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wrong. It keeps his mouth shut, his ears open, and his research extensive. And yet this is also the deadliest because when he is in fact proven wrong, he absolutely refuses to acknowledge it. It then keeps his mouth open, his ears shut, and his research inexistent."

"It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable windows."

"We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively."