Maimonides Quotes

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Comprehension follows perception.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

I like to say understanding is the power.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause of astonishment: their inability to understand simple questions is even more astonishing. The general acceptance of simple ideas is difficult and rare, and yet it is only when simple, fundamental, ideas have been accepted that further progress becomes possible on a higher level.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

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.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Intelligence is not a science.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

People don't understand complex issues.