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There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind. ↗

— John Fowles

#intelligence #types-of-intelligence #intelligence

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is. ↗

— Jesús Zamora-Bonilla

#philosophy #science #intelligence

I think that at that time none of us quite believed in the Time Machine. The fact is, the Time Traveler was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness. Had Filby shown the model and explained the matter in the Time Traveller's words, we should have shown him far less skepticism. For we should have perceived his motives; a pork butcher could understand Filby. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#disbelief #intelligence #intelligence

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many! ↗

— Ken Kesey

#funny #intelligence #mindfulness #sincere #truthfulness

Pride is yet again in the way of our mind’s ability to accept that we may not be the most intelligent and advanced people in the universe or on Earth since it was formed along with the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#earth #humility #intelligence #pride #universe

Science suggests that intuition or whole-body learning is a real form of intelligence, and it works on a far larger scale than most of us have ever realized. It may be difficult to describe and is not always easy to get in touch with, but it can process information on a more sophisticated level. ↗

— Marcia Conner

#intuition #whole-body-learning #intelligence

Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#ignorance #intelligence #narrow-mindedness #opinions #reality

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#compassion #diplomacy #dominion #force #intelligence

Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive. ↗

— Kimberly Stedronsky

#intelligence #mind #intelligence

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals by fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence. Yet that is what I see, or yearn to see. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged but in the creature judging, and when we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#hegel #science-fiction #the-other #intelligence