Quotes About Intelligence

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Únicamente podéis comprender a alguien ajeno a vosotros en la medida en que se humanice. La falta de universalidad de la Inteligencia encerrada en las normas de una especie constituye un curioso purgatorio con la muralla ubicada en el infinito.

Instead of learning something about an alien intelligence, they had learned how close the bonds of mental kinship were between man and his computer. The nearness of the alien civilization-practically within arm's reach - became a separating distance that mocked their attempts to get to the heart of it.

You know, Michael, it's not absolutely true in every case that nobody likes a smart ass.

Io credo che esisteranno sempre l'intelligenza, la voglia di libertà, l'eros e le sale da ballo - ha detto il nonno - ma la parola speranza non mi sento più di pronunciarla

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

Information is cheap; understanding is expensive.

When we extend information into our immediate surroundings, the space around us becomes a structure for holding information, which, in turn, reduces the individual cost of understanding. By using space in an intelligent way, we extend our cognitive abilities.

Mindful awareness is not presented as a passive concentration on a single, steady object, but as a refined engagement with a shifting, complex world. Mindfulness is a skill that can be developed. It is a choice, an act, a response that springs from a quiet but curious intelligence. And it is empathetic, keenly sensitized to the peculiar texture of one's own and others' suffering.

to begin with, the Na'vi must be smart, with cognitive skills at least similar to humans. Even an arrow with a shaft, a head, or some kind of flight is a multi-part tool.

Humanity is a young species in a very old universe, it was expected that any intelligence out there, if they exist all, were probably much older than mankind-and perhaps that very advancement was why we couldn't perceive them.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

After the emergence of intelligence, the story of any biosphere tended to get a lot simpler. It was a major reason for the silence of the stars.

Look, I've got nothing against brains. Some of my best friends have them.

I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads.

debacle in Lebanon was also ignored, even when in mid-September terrorists drove a truck carrying explosives into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and blew it up, killing twenty-three people. Reagan responded to critics by charging that the blame for the disaster lay with "previous administrations" for the "near destruction of our intelligence capabilities." By this time, Reagan had been in office three and a half years!

I was at a dinner party many years ago,sitting along from Tom Stoppard, who in those days smoked not just between courses,but between mouthfuls. An American woman watched in disbelief. And you so intelligent! Excuse me? said tom Knowing those things are going to kill you she said and still you do it. How differently I might behave Tom said, if immortality were an option

Late, Fry?' 'Really, sir? So am I.' 'Don't try to be clever, boy.' 'Very good, sir. How stupid would you like me to be? Very stupid or only slightly stupid?

Ask a stupid person, you'll get a stupid answer.

Since spies must survive by telling lies, it can be hard to know when they are telling the truth.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.