"If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
― Will Cuppy
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Intelligence
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- "Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people."
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- "Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."
More In Intelligence
- "Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ."― Robert Sternberg
- "I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."― James Whistler
- "I have met with some of them – very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."― Giacomo Casanova