Quotes About Intelligence

A capacity for comedy reveals a capacity for creativity. It plays upon our intense neophilia. It circumvents our tendencies towards boredom. Creativity is a reliable indicator of intelligence, energy, youth, and proteanism. Humor is attractive, and that is why it evolved.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

I believe that some of the greatest minds that ever lived had not read half as much and did not know nearly as much as some of our mediocre scholars. And some 20 of our verr mediocre scholars could have become greater men if they had not read so much.

I believe that some of the greatest minds that ever lived had not read half as much and did not know nearly as much as some of our mediocre scholars. And some of our very mediocre scholars could have become greater men if they had not read so much.

Aquello tuvo el efecto que por lo general tienen los buenos libros. Hizo más tontos a los tontos, más listos a los listos y los miles restantes quedaron ilesos.

Un libro es como un espejo: si un mono se asoma a él no puede ver reflejado a un apóstol. Carecemos de palabras para hablar con los tontos de sabiduría. Ya es sabio quien entiende a un sabio.

El simio más perfecto no puede dibujar un simio. Sólo el hombre puede hacerlo. Pero también sólo él lo considera una ventaja.

El hombre tenía tal entendimiento que ya casi no servía para nada.

Desarrollar la frase: así como aun los actos más ruines y vergonzosos requieren de cierta inteligencia y cierto talento, así también los actos más grandiosos requieren de una cierta insensibilidad que en otras circunstancias se llama estupidez.

No trates de mostrarte excesivamente ingenioso para evitar que un hombre por naturaleza ingenioso perciba por casualidad que en realidad eres exactamente como quisieras que él fuera.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

The paradox of artificial intelligence is that any system simple enough to be understandable is not complicated enough to behave intelligently, and any system complicated enough to behave intelligently is not simple enough to understand. The path to artificial intelligence, suggested Turing, is to construct a machine with the curiosity of a child, and let intelligence evolve.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain," says Google cofounder Sergey Brin.

The brain is a statistical, probabilistic system, with logic and mathematics running as higher-level processes. The computer is a logical, mathematical system, upon which higher-level statistical, probabilistic systems, such as human language and intelligence, could possibly be built.

The survival of the fittest is a slow method for measuring advantages," Turing argued in 1950. "The experimenter, by the exercise of intelligence, should be able to speed it up.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force