Quotes About Intelligence

Who's stupid now, Jimbo?!

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

A prudent person after all can pick something Even from an enemy.

What's the use of crowbars? It's not crowbars that we need, it's intelligence and common sense

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

Strep. Tell me, O Socrates, I beseech you, by Jupiter, who are these that have uttered this grand song? Are they some heroines? Soc. By no means; but heavenly Clouds, great divinities to idle men; who supply us with thought and argument, and intelligence and humbug, and circumlocution, and ability to hoax, and comprehension

Wit is educated insolence.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness…

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Los animales reciben de la naturaleza la facultad de conocer por los sentidos. Pero este conocimiento en unos no produce la memoria; al paso que en otros la produce. Y así los primeros son simplemente inteligentes; y los otros son más capaces de aprender que los que no tienen la facultad de acordarse.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends.

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine—whether by typewriter or microphones was immaterial—without being able to distinguish between its replies and those that a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. Hal could pass the Turing test with ease. The

no one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" Despite himself, Stormgren smiled.

It is vital to remember that information-- in the sense of raw data-- is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.

No electronic computer can match the human brain at associating apparently irrelevant facts.