Human Intelligence Quotes
83 quotes by 69 authors
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Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm…
— Dalai Lama
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The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does…
— Philippe Starck
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Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself . . . When we…
— Bertrand Russell
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In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were a mist, cloaking…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns,…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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By the mid-1990s the number of people with some experience of using computers was many orders of magnitude greater than in the 1960s. In the…
— Igor Aleksander
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"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow…
— Stephen Hawking
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She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose…
— Raymond Chandler
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The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.
— Joao Magueijo
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A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective…
— Jay Leno
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The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.
— Brian Eno
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If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your…
— Dalai Lama
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When we are angry we are blind to reality. Anger may bring us a temporary burst of energy, but that energy is blind and it…
— Dalai Lama
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The intelligence displayed by many dumb animals approaches so closely to human intelligence that it is a mystery. The animals see and hear and love…
— Ellen G. White
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The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.
— George H. Mead
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I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on…
— Jim Ramstad
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It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity
— Piero Scaruffi
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws…
— James Joseph Sylvester
Who Wrote These Human Intelligence Quotes
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