616 private quotes tagged intelligence

“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” — Socrates

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“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” — Thomas A. Edison

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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” — Stephen Hawking

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“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.” — Stephen Hawking

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“We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” — Albert Einstein

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“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” — Plutarch

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“I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.” — Steve Jobs

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“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” — Linus Torvalds

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“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.” — William F. Buckley, Jr.

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“Belief is the death of intelligence.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” — Albert Einstein

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“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.” — Sigmund Freud

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“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

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“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.” — Stephen Hawking

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“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” — Alan Kay

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“To think is to practice brain chemistry.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” — Confucius

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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” — Albert Einstein

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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford

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“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.” — Sun Tzu

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“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” — Mark Twain

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