Max Weber Quotes

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

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

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

You should employ your little grey cells.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Think. That's what we need you to do. Think.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.

Brains are no good if you don't use them.

Intelligence is a critical thing.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.