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"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
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"Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation" the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true."
"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
"Smartness without wisdom is stupidity."
"Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life."
"A researcher that has a brain that functions differently from their peers is at an advantage, as they can see things that the others cannot."
"Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities."
"Emotionally intelligent people can focus their emotions to improve performance and productivity."
"Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that, they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise."
"None of us is born a genius, it self-ignites within us."
"Once intelligent beings achieve technology and the capacity for self-destruction of their species, the selective advantage of intelligence becomes more uncertain."
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"Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race."
"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals."
"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."
"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."
"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found."
"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods."
"The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process."
"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."
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