Intelligence Quotes
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Leibniz ... envisioned real possibility in terms rooted in axiological considerations of evaluative optimality. To be sure, it is clear that one cannot just optimize. ... One has to optimize something, some feature or aspect of things. And if this factor is to be something that is qualified, be accepted as self-validating and self-sustaining, then the clearly most promising candidate would seem to be intelligence itself. ...
Nicholas Rescher
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It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
Richard Feynman
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I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.
Barry Hannah
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Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific, specific, specific.
Esther Hicks
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Intelligence and genius.
Albert Einstein
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We are all born with extraordinary powers of imagination, intelligence, feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of physical and sensory awareness. For the most part, we use only a fraction of these powers, and some not at all.
Ken Robinson
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
William Cowper
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
Heraclitus
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
Virginia Postrel
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It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
Merrick Garland
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There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.
Brad Willis
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“The definition of intelligence is the ability to defy your own programming.”
C Robert Cargill
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The show really is balanced, from the writing to the way it's shot, with intelligence and humanity. It's always sweet at the end of the episode. You really do like Earl.
Jason Lee
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We have intelligence, and virtue, and patriotism. All that is required is to cultivate and perpetuate these.
Alexander H. Stephens
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Asking for help does not mean that we are weak or incompetent. It usually indicates an advanced level of honesty and intelligence.
Anne Wilson Schaef
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I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.
Bran Ferren
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Nick Denton
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There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
Euripides
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What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud
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By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.
George Tenet
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Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.
Judy Woodruff