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“There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition. ”
— Stephen Hawking
“For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ”
— Honore de Balzac
“Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”
— Victor Hugo
“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
— Immanuel Kant
“George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.”
— Rush Limbaugh
“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
— Groucho Marx
“Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.”
— Barack Obama
“There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.”
— Michelle Obama
“We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.”
— Mitt Romney
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
— Ronald Reagan
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
— Francis Scott Fitzgerald
“Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.”
— Wayne Dyer
“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
“Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.”
— Bertrand Russell
“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”
— Bertrand Russell
“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
— Bertrand Russell
“I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.”
— David Bowie
“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”
— John Steinbeck
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
— Michael Jordan
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