Quotes of: Human-intelligence Keyword

There are extremes within any population, but on average, at least among young adults, those who feel lonely actually spend no more time alone than do those who feel more connected. They are no more or less physically attractive than average, and the...

Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of th...

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Powerful winds that crack the boughs of November! - and the bright calm sun, untouched by the furies of the earth, abandoning the earth to darkness, and wild forlornness, and night, as men shiver in their coats and hurry home. And then the lights of ...

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

Nell," the Constable continued, indicating through his tone of voice that the lesson was concluding, "the difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or i...

The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had n...

South by Java Head

God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation t...

Joseph Smith Jr.

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.

Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth

...the longer one stays in full flight from reality, the more painful will be the landing.

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

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Marissa Mayer

During the century after , it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.

The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

Unbound Intelligence: Discover the God Within

Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.

Unbound Intelligence: Discover the God Within

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotio...

Lynn Shelton

There's three things: there's masculinity, there's intelligence, there's sensitivity. You've got to bring those three things to a leading man's role: masculinity, sensitivity, intelligence. In some people, there's a little too much in the mix of one ...

Alec Baldwin

Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.

Bobby Ray Inman

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 act...

George Tenet

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad s...

Paul Graham

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Richard Dawkins