Intelligence Quotes
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Our four libertines, half-drunk but nonetheless resolved to abide their laws, contented themselves with kisses, fingerings, but their libertine intelligence knew how to season these mild activities with all the refinements of debauch and lubricity.
Marquis de Sade
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A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.
William Henry Hudson
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This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.
Plato
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The most important thing about an astronaut is you have to take for a given a person's done pretty well in school, has the intelligence and all of that to learn new systems and new things. But after that, the most important thing I think is being able to get along with others. Flexibility and teamwork, those issues because as we fly longer and longer in space, those are really important factors, even on short shuttle missions, those are important factors, to put a crew together that can work together effectively as a team, that can get along.
Leroy Chiao
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Sometimes it gets talked about as if life is all about the individual, and I don't think it is. I'm really interested in what writing can contribute to a kind of cultural intelligence.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
Plotinus
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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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Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.
Francis Atterbury
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The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.
William Hedgcock Webster
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My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.
Ken Robinson
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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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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Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
Alistair Cooke
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Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.
Johnny Depp
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I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.
Alexander Stepanov
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A critical attitude, like activity, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our time. Both are interdependent. If the critical attitude should dwindle, there would be more peace and less intelligence, to the benefit of the essential. Neither criticism nor activity, however, can steer the course in such a direction - this means that higher forces are involved.
Ernst Junger
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By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.
Ray Kurzweil
