Quotes & Sayings About Intelligence Albert Einstein

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein

We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence. — Albert Einstein

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better. — Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. — Albert Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Albert Einstein

Scientific greatness is less a matter of intelligence than character; if the scientist refuses to compromise or accept incomplete answers and persists in grappling the most basic and difficult questions. — Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. — Albert Einstein

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists. — Albert Einstein

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject. — Albert Einstein

My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world. — Albert Einstein

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence. — Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. — Albert Einstein

Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. — Albert Einstein

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it. — Albert Einstein

Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community. — Albert Einstein

Intelligence and genius — Albert Einstein

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. — Albert Einstein

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - ALBERT EINSTEIN — James Rollins

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature. — Albert Einstein

Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure. — Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein said, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — John Englander

Creativity is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein

Imagination is intelligence having fun. — Albert Einstein

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination — Albert Einstein

My success wasn't so much due to intelligence, but the fact that I stuck with problems longer. — Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. — Albert Einstein

The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. — Albert Einstein

The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages. — Albert Einstein

The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal. — Albert Einstein

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth! — Albert Einstein

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will. — Albert Einstein