Real Intelligence Quotes:

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Adaptability, Ability To Change

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Success, Motivation, Desire To Win, Real Intelligence

If you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

- Michael Jordan

source: Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

topic: Teamwork, Winning, Thinking, Individual Goals, Individual Performance

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Years, Genius, Original Ideas, Real Intelligence, Geniality

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Education, Character, Goal, Good Character, Inspirational Character

A reason to have computers understand natural language is that it's an extremely effective way of communicating. What I came to realize is that the success of the communication depends on the real intelligence on the part of the listener, and that there are many other ways of communicating with a computer that can be more effective, given that it doesn't have the intelligence.

- Terry Winograd

source: "Designing Interactions". Book by Bill Moggridge, chapter 7, www.designinginteractions.com. 2007.

topic: Real, Communication, Way, Real Intelligence

I don't reject the concept of preemptive war. I'm a mother of five. I have five grandchildren. And I always say: Think of a lioness. Think of a mother bear. You come anywhere near our cubs, you're dead. And so, in terms of any threat to our country, people have to know we'll be there to preemptively strike. But what the president [Bush] did was, on the basis of no real intelligence for an imminent threat to our country, chose to go into a war for reasons that are still unknown to us.

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: Mother, Country, Real, Cubs, Real Intelligence

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

- Lord Mountbatten

topic: Children, Real, Parent, Real Intelligence, Royal Family

What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness.

- David W. Orr

topic: Real, Humility, Giving, Wildness, Inspirational Teacher

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

- Douglas Hofstadter

topic: Real, Steps, Sometimes, Real Intelligence

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

source: "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

topic: Real, Animal, Two, Deeper Understanding, Real Intelligence

Real intelligence must be fiercely capable of investigating every aspect of existence, including the very process of knowledge that we call science .

- Adi Da

source: Da Free John, Adi Da Samraj, Georg Feuerstein (1984). “The transmission of doubt: talks and essays on the transcendence of scientific materialism through radical understanding”, Dawn Horse Pr

topic: Real, Process, Aspect, Real Intelligence