Quotes About Intelligence

Every species, except the human, chose immediate, short-range success by means of specialization. But specialization always leads into blind alleys. It is only by remaining precariously generalized that an organism can advance towards that rational intelligence which is its compensation for not having a body and instincts perfectly adapted to one particular kind of environment.

For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently-though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, makes for virtues and happiness;generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

which is better—to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman.

All human minds are not the same, that intelligence differs not only in degree, but to some extent also in kind.

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

Just to give you a general idea, he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently--though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Without the least sense of rush or strain you've been working as fast as one of those extraordinary calculating boys, who turn up from time to time.

Lo que había dado a Helmholtz la desagradable conciencia de ser él mismo y estar totalmente solo, era un exceso de inteligencia.

An education for freedom (and for the love and intelli­gence which are at once the conditions and the results of freedom) must be, among other things, an educa­tion in the proper uses of language.

Thanks to language and culture, human behavior can be incomparably more intelligent, more original, creative and flexible than the behavior of animals, whose brains are too small to accommodate the number of neurons necessary for the invention of language and the transmission of accumulated knowledge. But, thanks again to language and culture, human beings often with a stupidity, a lack of realism, a total inappropriateness, of which animals are incapable.

Çünkü zaten iÅŸlerini zekice yapacaklarsa genel bir fikirleri olmak zorundayd?, ancak toplumun iyi ve mutlu üyeleri olacaklarsa ne kadar az bilirlerse o kadar iyi olurdu.

From their earliest years, as soon, that is, as the examining psychologists have assigned them their place in the classified scheme, the Men of Faith will have had their special education under the eye of the Intelligences. Moulded by a long process of suggestion, they will go out into the world, preaching and practising with a generous mania the coldly reasonable projects of the Directors from above.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

The lizards died of having too much body and too little head,' said Rampion in explanation.'so at least the scientists are never tired of telling us. Physical size is a handicap after a certain point. But what about mental size? These fools seem to forget that they're just as top-heavy and clumsy and disproportioned as any diplodocus. Sacrificing physical life and affective life to mental life. What do they imagine's going to happen?

Quick! Quick! Our liddle genius is crying.

RzÄ…dzenie to sprawa stoÅ'ka, nie koÅ'ka. RzÄ…dzi siÄ™ przy pomocy mózgu i poÅ›ladków, nie pi??ci. - Aldous Huxley Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat

Es necesario ser desgraciado para explotar ciertos manantiales misteriosos, ocultos en la inteligencia humana.

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas para la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora

Es necesaria la desgracia para socavar ciertas minas misteriosas ocultas en la inteligencia humana; es precisa la presión para hacer estallar la pólvora.

People say: a donkey is stupid. When a man is told that he is not very intelligent, stubborn and lazy he is politely called an ass.

I'd like to know, who is more stupid and stubborn in this case – the donkey or the man?

My dear papa! I much prefer a smart man of small height than a big dumb idiot!