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"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
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"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."
"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
"What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness."
"Live by the words of intelligence endured..F@&$ IT!"
"Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of."
"A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous."
"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology."
"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer."
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal."
"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
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