Intelligence Quotes - Page 20

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.

Thinking is good for your mind, but too much thinking leads to distraction.

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.

When Albert Einstein told you to hide your source, he wasn't giving you a deliberate advice to conceal the root in which you're growing, but was to conceal the root from the eyes of people that will dare to uproot it.

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.

Erudition is the crude residue of wilted harvests; wit: the meddlesome weed that wilts them.

Knowledge is all about knowing it and Intelligence is all about using it

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

What I learned on my own I still remember

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.