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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.


Hunter S. Thompson


#intellect #life-lessons #reality #life

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.


Mortimer J. Adler


#limitations #practicality #reading #work #intelligence

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.


Adam Gopnik


#humans #ingenuity #intelligence #mortality #smarts

Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.


William James


#intellect #spirituality #intelligence

If intelligence were a television set, it would be an early black-and-white model with poor reception, so that much of the picture was gray and the figures on the screen were snowy and indistinct. You could fiddle wiht the knobs all you wanted, but unless you were careful, what you would see often depended more on what you expacted or hoped to see than on what was really there.


Madeleine Albright


#intelligence

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.


Peter Watts


#intelligence #pattern-matching #equality

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#hero-worship #horses #love #riding #superiority

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.


Yevgeny Zamyatin


#humanity #intelligence #intelligence

You want to be the first to do something. You want to create something. You want to innovate something...I often think of Edison inventing the light bulb. That's what I want to do. I want to drive over the bridge coming out of New York there and look down on that sea of lights that is New Jersey and say, `Hey, I did that!'


David Keirsey


#personality #psychology #intelligence

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.


Arthur C. Clarke


#computers #diversity #robots #intelligence






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