#intel

Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#education #education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom

Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity. ↗

— Toba Beta

#purpose #stupidity #equality

Captain, I'm fairly unique among artificial intelligences. I am FREE. I work for you because I want to. I fly your ship for you because I enjoy it. I am compelled to accept orders only by my conscience. This makes me an equal with the rest of your troops. They aren't hard-wired to obey you, yet they'll follow you to the ends of the Universe. -Ennesby ↗

— Howard Tayler

#freedom #loyalty #military #equality

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion. ↗

— Bill Nye

#gives #intellectually #investment #passion #society

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#class #detail #experience #intelligent #knows

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#career #early #i #intellectuals #make

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#comparable #find #i #intellect #know

I want to exude strength and intelligence. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#intelligence #strength #want