Daniel Tammet Quotes

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

My experience is listen, see, feel - and then think about what you change.

I'm very good at reading people - and very bad at math.

Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

Understand that you don't know it all. You don't know anything yet. What you've been taught is great, but always go with common sense. And don't marry your first love.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

When I was younger, I wanted to guard myself against criticism, so I did so much more work than was needed. Now, though, it's sometimes better to understand something intuitively than have to dig your way into a character.

A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.