Human Intelligence Quotes - Page 5

• I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Clever, Lying, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.230, Library of Alexandria

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• How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Persistence, Errors, Justice

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• If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

  Aldous Huxley

  Military, Animal, Perfect

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “Point Counter Point”, p.108, Random House

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• We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Orbit, Building Things, Mars

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• [In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Thinking, Way, Computer

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• The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, 'What nonsense!' shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Mind, Evaluation, Firsts

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• The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Catholic, Littles, Superstitions

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• The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Men, Atheism

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• The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

  Lewis Henry Morgan

  Wisdom, Mastery, Politics

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• We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

  Gary L. Francione

  Self, Bird, Underwater

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• At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

  Matt Ridley

  Animal, Way, Collectives

  Matt Ridley (2010). “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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• Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Past, Quality

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.173, 谷月社

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• When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed to chimpanzees. If you don't have human intelligence, you're not even in the game.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, College, Games

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• You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

  Octavia Butler

  Cancer, Pride, Animal

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• By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Profound, Brain, Body

  "10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil". content.time.com. December 06, 2010.

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• Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Tests, Compare

  "Top Scientific Minds Declare That We Are Just One Among Many Animals" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Errors, Names, Imperfection

  William Ellery Channing (1830). “Discourses, reviews, and miscellanies”, p.461

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