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Quotes About Cognition

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.
~ Noam Chomsky
The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.
~ Sigmund Freud
Brains aren't everything, but they're important.
~ William Feather
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
~ George Orwell
I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.
~ Howard Gardner
Intelligence is derived from two words
~ J. Martin Klotsche
Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.
~ Andrew Tobias
Intelligence is the seeing of what is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
~ Agnes Repplier
How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.
~ Michael J. Gelb
Those unmindful when they hear, for all they make of their intelligence, may be regarded as the walking dead.
~ Heraclitus
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
~ Joe Whitney
Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
~ Mason Cooley
My biggest turn-on has to be brains, intelligence.
~ Liz Vassey
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
~ Rose Macaulay
Mind is memory, not intelligence.
~ Rajneesh
Intelligence is that aspect of human cognition that we haven't managed to emulate yet.
~ Rob Lowe
I want vasopressin, washed caffeine, Jumpstart, ginkgo biloba, guarana, and any intelligence enhancer introduced in the last five years.
~ Warren Ellis
Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.
~ Scott Adams
There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
~ Bryan Fuller