Quotes of: Human-intelligence Keyword

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".

Charles Bukowski

If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here. [ , 1 November 1996]

Arthur C. Clarke

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Daymond John

To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence.

Chinese

Our relations seemed poor to me, and I wasn't surprised that the US intelligence picture in the Horn of Africa was weak. Much of what I read consisted of recycled news headlines repackaged as intelligence. Real, valuable intelligence only came from r...

The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL

Your opinion of your mental capacity may be great, but if your idea of intelligence is crude, your intelligence-producing thought will also be crude, and can produce only crude intelligence. It is therefore evident that to simply think that you are b...

Christian D. Larson

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integra...

Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry

One always has to wonder anew how anyone could imagine a god, who, so overwhelmingly intelligent and powerful as to have been able to create this enormously complex world and the vast universe it floats around in, would populate it with a bunch of hu...

Essence of Reality: A Clear Awareness of How Life Works

To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings. We must suspect tha...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soul between 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of P...

Howl and Other Poems

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human ...

His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black ...

W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader

No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that: a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid. b) day after day, with unceasing mo...

Carlo M. Cipolla

Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape, perhaps intelligent, perhaps idiotic, from a senile situation. It is a dialectical movement, it keeps tearing ope...

Life

Negative thinking will not produce positive changes - ever.

E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

The Beauty Myth

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

the gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out

Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information