Eileen Pollack Quotes

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

Man is an imagining being.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.

You can't process me with a normal brain.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being.

Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Intelligence is capital.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

I'm pretty smart.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I like players that play off IQ.

I'm a natural puzzle solver.

Most of my work is in my mind.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.