Intelligence Quotes
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The issue, as correctly emphasized by Carl Sagan, is the probability of the evolution of high intelligence and an electronic civilization on an inhabited world. Once we have life (and almost surely it will be very different from life on Earth), what is the probability of its developing a lineage with high intelligence? On Earth, among millions of lineages of organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence; this makes me believe in its utter improbability.
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My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
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Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.
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The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
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In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
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Definitely an intelligence in the light of the heart. In yoga, we refer to this as the heart center - right behind the breastbone, and visualize it as a golden candle flame of light and spirit.
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The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn’t realize it.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
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The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
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It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.
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On Earth, among millions of lineages or organisms and perhaps 50 billion speciation events, only one led to high intelligence ; this makes me believe its utter improbablity.
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My affairs are in the keeping of Infinite Wisdom. I am guided by Divine Intelligence. The activity of Spirit inspires my mind and flows through my actions. Life lies open to me, rich, full and abundant.
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Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.
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There's a heart beneath the boobs and a brain beneath the wig.
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It is difficult finding intelligence that is actionable in a lot of these places, but we have to keep trying.
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Intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!
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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
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People sometimes accuse me of knowing a lot. "Stephen," they say, accusingly, "you know a lot." This is a bit like telling a person who has a few grains of sand clinging to him that he owns much sand. When you consider the vast amount of sand there is in the world such a person is, to all intents and purposes, sandless. We are all sandless. We are all ignorant. There are beaches and deserts and dunes of knowledge whose existance we have never even guessed at, let alone visited.
