Quotes About Intelligence

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ~ Alan Turing

For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.

What would happen if most people tried to act intelligently on their own behalf? Anarchy. (....) So what can we do with this intelligence we don't need and can't use? Stupefy it. Valium for housewives, glue-sniffing for schoolkids, hash for adolescents, rotgut South African wine for the unemployed, beer for the workers, spirits for me and the crowd I left downstairs fifteen minutes ago.

I know now that what was wrong with her was too much energy and intelligence. Cleaning a room and kitchen, serving a husband and son, entertaining the neighbours did not use her up.

I used to think Denny was foolish because she had no definite ideas about the world. I had very definite ideas: the world was a mess, but its problems could be solved by modern technology, and when Alan and I left college we would begin to improve things. I was an ignorant git. If intelligence asks searching questions and does not relax on a pile of glib answers Denny was the intelligent half of us.

Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that. ~Understanding Space & Time

Op zijn twintigste is iedereen intelligent; met de tijd wordt het steeds moeilijker om intelligent te blijven. Maar misschien leer je dan ter compensatie om gelukkig te zijn.

School taught me only to read and write. And that sliver of learning set me on the surest road to starving to death in honesty and ignorance. You were the first to open my eyes to widespread corruption. To have understood that the only forces that drive humanity are thieving and swindling - that's real intelligence. And you didn't even go to school.

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.

A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Information is not knowledge.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

If someone can enjoy marching to music in rank and file, I can feel only contempt for him; he has received his large brain by mistake, a spinal cord would have been enough.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking