„The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do“

„What is the use of education if we do not become creative, conscious and truly intelligent? Real education does not mean knowing how to read and write. Any stupid person, any fool can know how to read and write. We need to have intelligence and it only awakens within us when the consciousness awakens.“

—  Samael Aun Weor Colombian writer 1917 - 1977

Fundamental Education

„If we know human anatomy and we are reasonably intelligent, he assumes that we can figure out how to do almost anything.“

—  Ben Carson 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon 1951

Zdroj: Think Big (1996), p. 84

„Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.“

—  Jean Piaget Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic 1896 - 1980

„…there is a virtue attached to intelligence, but lets suppose that we are all intelligent enough to know that intelligence is not a virtue; that the people who made the atom bomb were very intelligent, and that really virtue resides in how we conduct ourselves…“

—  Zia Haider Rahman British novelist

"Zia Haider Rahman's In The Light of What We Know" Books& Arts in ABC http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/zia-haider-rahman/6517150?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter June 3, 2015. Retrieved on 2015-06-03.

„If, as I maintain and firmly believe, there is no objective definition of intelligence, and what we call intelligence is only a creation of cultural fashion and subjective prejudice, what the devil is it we test when we make use of an intelligence test?“

—  Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction and popular … 1920 - 1992

"Thinking About Thinking" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1975
General sources

„The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.“

—  Philip K. Dick American author 1928 - 1982

„A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.“

—  Cesare Pavese Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908 - 1950

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

„You can only say Darwinian causes -- random mutation, natural selection -- even gravity is supposed to be done by that! And I would say to these people, well, how did life begin? We don't know, but it had to be by Darwinian means. Well, how did gravity begin? We don't know, but it had to be by Darwinian means. Why did it have to be that way? Why couldn't there have been an intelligent designer?“

—  Ben Stein actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist 1944

YouTube -- Ben Stein discusses the "Expelled" documentary, Fox News: Intelligent Journey -- Stein's New Documentary, 14 April 2008, 2008-04-23 http://youtube.com/watch?v=ck3AgSAXIgo,

„We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.“

—  Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018

Also quoted in "Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8642558.stm at BBC News (25 April 2010).
Kontext: If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. … We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

„To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy but when the intelligence lies to Congress how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.“

—  Rand Paul American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky 1963

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„Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.“

—  Charles Darwin British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection" 1809 - 1882

„No matter how rich, talented or intelligent you are… how you treat animals tells me all I need to know about you.“

—  Ralph Smart

„Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?“

—  Orhan Pamuk, kniha The Museum of Innocence

Zdroj: The Museum of Innocence

„Catholic priests know where the shoe pinches. But their day is done, and they know it. They are far too intelligent not to see that, and to enter upon a hopeless battle. But if they do, I shall certainly not make martyrs of them. We shall brand them as ordinary criminals. I shall tear the mask of honesty from their faces. And if that is not enough, I shall make them appear ridiculous and contemptible. I shall order films to be made about them. We shall show the history of the monks on the cinema. Let the whole mass of nonsense, selfishness, repression and deceit be revealed: how they drained the money out of the country, how they haggled with the Jews for the world, how they committed incest.“

—  Hermann Rauschning German politician 1887 - 1982

Zdroj: The Voice of Destruction (1940), pp. 52-53

„We then, who are this new soul, know
Of what we are composed and made,
For the' atomies of which we grow
Are souls, whom no change can invade.
But oh alas, so long, so far,
Our bodies why do we forbear?
They're ours, though they're not we; we are
The intelligences, they the spheres.“

—  John Donne English poet 1572 - 1631

The Ecstasy, line 45

„As I mentioned in my previous homosexual video, never overlook the influence that can be caused by a single person. Everyone in the world, despite how much you score in a test, what job you’re in or how intelligent you are, has influence.“

—  Amos Yee blogger 1998

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„Resistance to deciding the next action (before we have to) stems from how it exposes the vulnerability of our intelligence.“

—  David Allen American productivity consultant and author 1945

28 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/17222176055
Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy

„I believe that our very survival depends upon us becoming better systems thinkers. How can we learn to see the systems we're participating in? How can we act intelligently when things remain fuzzy?“

—  Margaret J. Wheatley American writer 1941

It's An Interconnected World (2002)

„We were peers, I think. Leo's an incredibly intelligent guy who's been through a great amount of life experience over the course of the last few years. He's very dedicated and I think he had a very good idea of what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it.“

—  Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974

Tom Hanks speaking on the working relationship he has with Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Catch Me If You Can http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/01/16/tom_hanks_catch_me_if_you_can_interview.shtml
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