#intelligence

"In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30."

"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

"The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles."

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."

"This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism."

"Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?"

"A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out."

"But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body."

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."

"Many much-learned men have no intelligence."

"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."

"A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more."

"By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

"Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."

"I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself! (Amelia Peabody)"

"Animals do it largely for the REPRODUCTION, but so-called Social Animals (People) do it regularly thinking that it will give them SATISFACTION."

"It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word."