The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
The universe is an intelligence test.
Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
I think intelligence basically can be in a way defined by the possibility of having two opposite ideas living together and at the same time functioning. That's why I think a smart script has two things living in the same place, and they're absolutely contradictory.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.