Quotes about intelligence
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“God gives life to human beings who in turn give birth to artificial intelligence.”
The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019
“Death can be very unpleasant when you're intelligent.”
Raised by Wolves, season 1, episode 4. Character Father.
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 71
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 60
Source: The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory (1983), p. 59
Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom (1867)
Turkish Wikipedia
https://quotestats.com/topic/attila-hun-quotes/
1790s, The Age of Reason, Part III (1807)
“The attractive woman is simply complicated, strictly intelligent and damn charming.”
Original: La donna attraente è semplicemente complicata, rigorosamente intelligente e dannatamente affascinante.
Source: prevale.net
“Son intelligence rendait sa splendeur encore plus terrifiante.”
The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
“The universe is an intelligence test”
As quoted in Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (1977) by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 170
Variant: Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned
From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour
Context: “And I have a lot of self-esteem, which is amazing, because I’m probably somebody who wouldn’t necessarily have a lot of self esteem as I am considered a minority and if you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless. You know, when you look in the mirror and think, ‘Ugh, I'm so ugly, I'm so fat, I'm so old.’ Don't you know that's not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising. Magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself, so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around crème that doesn't turn around shit. If you don't have self-esteem, you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you want to go for. You will hesitate to ask for a raise. You will hesitate to call yourself an American. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote; you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.
“Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!”
What is Enlightenment? (1784)
Variant: Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
Source: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Context: Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment.
Source: God & Golem, Inc. (1964), p. 69
Source: The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Context: [T]he future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
“Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”
Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Source: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
"Sermons in Cats the musical"
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
Source: War and Peace
Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (2009), p. 284.
Context: It appeared that the one area in which Sir Bob excelled was anxiety. He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others’ mediocrity—suggesting that a certain kind of intelligence may at heart be nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970)
“An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects”
Chapter 19
Source: 3001: The Final Odyssey
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: As a Man Thinketh
“Anger, intelligence, and wit are ultimately more seductive than zero percent body fat.”
Source: Cinderella's Big Score: Women of the Punk and Indie Underground
“Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!”
Source: Howl and Other Poems
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an aesthetic end.”
Notebook entry, Paris (28 March 1903), printed in James Joyce: Occasional, Critical and Political Writing (2002) edited by Kevin Barry [Oxford University Press, 2002, <small> ISBN 0-192-83353-7</small>], p. 104
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
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Source: The Visitor (2002)
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
“That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.”
“Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
Source: Suddenly You
“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden…”
Variant: Do I look feeble to you"
"Actually, yes."
"Well, looks can be deceiving. For instance, when I met you, I thought you look reasonably intelligent.
Source: Unwind
...in der ganzen Natur, mit dem Grad der Intelligenz die Fähigkeit zum Schmerze sich steigert, also ebenfalls erst hier ihre höchste Stufe erreicht.
The Wisdom of Life. Chapter II. Personality, or What a Man Is: Footnote 19
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Not yet placed by volume, chapter or section
“When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Context: Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think... In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
“Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence,” Will muttered.”
Variant: I am not a certified idiot—"
"Lack of certification hardly proves intelligence," Will muttered.
Source: Clockwork Princess
Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Variant: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”
Le véritable lieu de naissance est celui où l'on a porté pour la première fois un coup d'oeil intelligent sur soi-même: mes premières patries ont été des livres.
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian (1951), p. 33
“He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains”
“Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.”
"Sundays of a Bourgeois"
Source: Les dimanches d'un bourgeois de Paris, et autres aventures parisiennes
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”
“The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing (1949), Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 31
Context: Why could the typical investor expect any better success in trying to buy at low levels and sell at high levels than in trying to forecast what the market is going to do? Because if he does the former he acts only after the market has moved down into buying levels or up into selling levels. His role is not that of a prophet but of a businessman seizing clearly evident investment opportunities. He is not trying to be smarter than his fellow investors but simply trying to be less irrational than the mass of speculators who insist on buying after the market advances and selling after it goes down. If the market persists in behaving foolishly, all he seems to need is ordinary common sense in order to exploit its foolishness.
“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?”
Source: Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
Source: An Old-Fashioned Girl
“The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.”
Source: The Collected Poems
“To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.”
"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 146-147.
1930s
Source: A Sand County Almanac: With Other Essays on Conservation from Round River
Context: The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only those who know the most about it can appreciation how little we know about it. The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
