Intelligence
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Intelligence is a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn.
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- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
- Ambrose Bierce Devil's Dictionary (1911)
- She should be my counsellor,
But not my tyrant. For the spirit needs
Impulses from a deeper source than hers;
And there are motions, in the mind of man,
That she must look upon with awe.- William Cullen Bryant, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 353.
- Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 353.
- The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
- "Handle With Care", Esquire Magazine (March 1936).
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Garden of Folly, "The Perfect Salesman" (1924)
- An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Baltasar Gracián. In Maxim 92, The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647)
- The intellect has only one failing, which to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest instance of this. If his heart had borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of the greatest men of history.
- James Russel Lowell, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 353.
- Every thing connected with intellect is permanent.
- William Roscoe, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 353.
- To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.
- Cornel West, "Chekhov, Coltrane, and Democracy: Interview by David Lionel Smith." The Cornel West Reader (1998).
- Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
- Alfred North Whitehead Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec.1939
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- Intelligence is the road to insanity.
- Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
- Before we work on artificial intelligence why don't we do something about natural stupidity?
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- I'm not very clever, but I am quite intelligent.
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- I think the world is run by C students.
- If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
- It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
- Most People are only as intelligent as the knowledge they deem socially acceptable.
- A very intelligent man knows how to press the right switches.
- My brain: it's my second favorite organ.
- The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.
- The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
- The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education.
- The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
- The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- There is nothing greater than the human mind, only through it people are able to travel on roads, which would otherwise be closed to them in their narrow realities.
- We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- Artificial Intelligence is no substitute for natural stupidity.
- Do not always assume that the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
- No one who lives among intellectuals is likely to idealize them unduly.
- If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
- The intellect must reason laboriously to comprehend 'truth' but the intuition knows immediately.
- People often say to me, "I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don’t really feel it, I don’t realize it," and I am apt to reply, "I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it."
- If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
- A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
- Rev. Thomas Scott
- Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
- Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
- To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,—this is the mark and character of intelligence.
