From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.
When many people start practicing yoga, they are amazed to discover that their body isn't just something used to carry their head around - their body has intelligence too. We start to feel how our actions affect the lives of others - this could be described as becoming political, because the word politic means the "greater body" - it refers to the community of others with whom we share the Earth.
Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.
One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally incomprehensible to us. This would then lead to each species, we and the machines, moving off on to its own separate life trajectory.
Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.
Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe. . . Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe. . . and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i. e. , in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.
Tonight, the news debated the intelligence of a bear. And it got my wondering why humanity rewards itself for passing tests that we create. And that got me wondering why we care. I've studied enough wars to know that the intelligence of the target isn't on the mind of the person with the gun. Maybe we should stop talking about intelligence and start discussing our grades in compassion.
Attitudes are more important than intelligence.
Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.
There's an intelligence within the heart that is far bigger than our figuring out the mind.
The only intelligence investing is value investing. . . to acquire more than one is paying for.
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.