Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
Aldous HuxleyTags: causality error intelligence theories
The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs.
Tags: intelligence belief
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeTags: intelligence self-deprecation
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar WildeTags: intelligence wit quotation
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Diane ArbusTags: life intelligence education knowledge
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Douglas AdamsTags: intelligence atheism
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
Norbert WienerTags: intelligence cybernetics robots
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.
Stephen Jay GouldTags: science life intelligence ecology stewardship
Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding -- and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing.
William H. CalvinTags: intelligence civilization
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Søren KierkegaardTags: intelligence liberty free-will freedom stupidity free-speech civil-rights
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