#intelligence

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#children #clarity #curiosity #intelligence #intolerance

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#guidance #immaturity #incapacity #intelligence #use

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. ↗

— Alan Kay

#artificial #artificial intelligence #complex #every #every time

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. ↗

— Vernon A. Walters

#ambivalent #attitude #feel #had #immoral

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. ↗

— Simone Weil

#debases #degrades #entire #human #human being

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#act #apprehend #apprehended #capacity #distinct

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency. ↗

— Wayne White

#any #apparatus #arab #business #experience

To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments, mostly favorable. "I read his remarks again and again, many times [Catherine later recalled in her memoirs]. I impressed them on my consciousness and resolved to follow his advice. In addition, there was something else surprising: one day, while conversing with me, he allowed the following sentence to slip out: 'What a pity that you will marry! I wanted to find out what he meant, but he would not tell me. ↗

— Robert K. Massie

#coming-of-age #independence #intelligence #marriage #matrimony

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humour #intelligence #stupidity #funny

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#art