John Ruskin Quotes

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Intelligence is not easy to come by.

After all, Franklin [Delano Roosevelt] isn't very bright.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

Intelligence is not a moral category.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

Intelligence is the sexiest thing in the world.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

There are three kinds of minds: first those that attain insight and understanding of things by their own means, then those that recognize what is right when others explain it to them, and finally those that are capable of neither one nor the other.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

I've got the brain of a four year old. I'll bet he was glad to be rid of it.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

There's a reason for Art Garfunkel's oddly shaped hair. It hides a very big brain.