“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
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“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
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“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
“To think is to practice brain chemistry.”
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”
“I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.”
“Belief is the death of intelligence.”
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”
“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”
“I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
“Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.”
“It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.”
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.”
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”