#intel

A ști anumite lucruri pe de rost îți conferă capacitatea unei înțelegeri superioare. ↗

— Jean-Claude Carrière

#intelligence #science #understanding #intelligence

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock. "Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#academia #academic-degrees #achievements #clichés #double-standards

. . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre de l'homme vient seulement de commencer et il reste à l'homme à conquérir toute interdiction immobilisée aux coins de sa ferveur et aucune race ne possède le monopole de la beauté, de l'intelligence, de la force . . . ↗

— Aimé Césaire

#négritude #poetry #intelligence

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic. ↗

— Alex Payne

#intellectual-rigor #intelligence #intelligence

When the number of children goes over one, God becomes miserly in granting intelligence; he takes it from the living child and gives it to the child to be born. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#intelligence

Oh, I suppose all men of intelligence know how fragile such things as Law and Justice and Civilization really are, but it's not a thing they think of willingly, because it disturbs one's rest and plays hob with one's appetite. ↗

— Stephen King

#intelligence

Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#intelligence

Even if lifelong A fool attends upon a wise man, He no more knows dhammas Than a spoon knows the flavours of soup. Even if for a moment An intelligent man attends upon a wise man, He quickly knows dhammas As the tongue knows the flavours of soup. ↗

— Anonymous

#fools #intelligence #vv- #intelligence

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time. ↗

— Brian Christian

#life #intelligence

Technically, you don't pay me. And technically, most of what I do is "think." I...rrr. ummm. And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are. -Ennesby & Captain Tagon ↗

— Howard Tayler

#intelligence #military #thinking #intelligence