Quotes About Intelligence

Catherine's motto could well have been that genius is a long patience. With the successive reigns of her sons came her chance to show the world how they had underestimated this disregarded queen. What Catherine lacked in beauty she made up for in intelligence, cunning and family ambition.

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human.

So, let us move forward with faith in ourselves, in our intelligence, in our indomitable spirit. Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion and love.

I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and he human spirit is indomitable. But if we want life, we will have to stop depending on someone else to save the world. It is up to us-you and me, all of us. Myself, I have placed my faith in the children.

from the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.

The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

I well remember writing to Louis about my first observations, describing how David Graybeard not only used bits of straw to fish for termites but actually stripped leaves from a stem and thus made a tool. And I remember too receiving the now oft-quoted telegram he sent in response to my letter: Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans. There

We're not really a very intelligent species when we destroy our home.

I am feeling wonder and awe about this incredible world we live in. And the truth is, we're destroying it before we've even finished learning about it. We think we are smarter than nature, but we are not. Our human intellect is amazing, but we must be humble and recognize that there is an even greater intelligence in nature.

a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet:

animals have minds capable of solving problems, as well as emotions and very definite personalities

Chimpanzees and the other great apes can learn four hundred or more words of American Sign

They actually have brains in each of their eight arms!

Why don't you see if you can google that Einstein quote while I feed him. It's in his book The World As I See It." While Jane was gone, I looked it up. And there it was, in the book Jane suggested: "The harmony of natural law Ã¢â'¬Â¦ reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

That there's intelligence in all life

What I have said about viruses applies to all biological life. Viruses are "highly intelligent" — meaning that they react quickly to stimuli. They are responsive to emotional states. They are social. Their scale of life varies considerably, and some can be

All intelligent women are latent homosexuals

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

I don't think his elevator went all the way to the top anymore, if you know what I mean

Grass don't grow on a busy street," Grandma said. "Better to be smart than to have hair.

I could be wrong here," Lula said, "but I think you're dumb as a box of rocks.

I could be wrong here," Lula said, "but I think you're dumb as a box of rocks." "Sticks and stones," Cal said.

Shit for brains," Leo's father said. "That's what you got … shit for brains.

Riley decided the man was physically a ten, but intellectually he was a certifiable fruit basket.