Quotes about Intelligence

“I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.”

“I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.”

“Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.”

“Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.”

“The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?”

“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.”

“I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.”

“A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.”

“By the 2030s, the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will predominate.”

“In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.”

“A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.”

“Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.”

“To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.”

“What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?”

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

“There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.”

“Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.”

“I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.”

“Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.”

“It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.”

“Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.”