Nature of man Quote by John Gray

“What truly makes a human as an intelligent being is our thinking capability.”

— Pearl Zhu

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“But if you pay attention to creation, you realize that the divine, or whatever is the source of creation, is, above all, the highest…

— Sadhguru

“I am an intellectual. This does not mean I am intelligent, but that ideas are more important to me than people.”

— George Sheehan

“There are no intelligent people, only intelligent actions carried out by certain people in contexts that offer the opportunity for such action to take…

— Lene Tanggaard

“It is, after all, not the tasks people do but the things they do around the edges of them that reveal who they are.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it.”

— Sylvia Engdahl

“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual…

— Santosh Kalwar

“I view the world as incidental to my aims, while he cannot allow someone with enhanced intelligence to work purely in self-interest.”

— Ted Chiang

“Before we end this subsection, there is one more thing that we should emphasize, which is that an artificial intelligence need not much resemble…

— Nick Bostrom

“Am I not as smart as I believe or am I just human?”

— Krista Ritchie