Top 1200 Animal Intelligence Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

To oppose knowledge is ignorant, and he who detests knowledge and science is not a man, but rather an animal without intelligence. For knowledge is light, life, felicity, perfection, beauty and the means of approaching the Threshold of Unity. It is the honor and glory of the world of humanity, and the greatest bounty of God. Knowledge is identical with guidance, and ignorance is real error

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

To the woman with the least intelligence, there must come, at some time or other, the realization that housework is animal work and that there are other occupations in the world a thousand times more refined, more enriching, for which she is also suited and to which she has a right.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon.

I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

The aim of a foreign intelligence service is to find and convince individuals to help them achieve intelligence objectives.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

For years, I have traveled all around the country to promote animal welfare, fighting for policies that will finally eliminate unnecessary animal suffering.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Chess - it's a nonmainstream game. And the irony is that when you look at Hollywood, it kept using chess as the symbol of intelligence for its heroes, for its top characters, all the time. So it's from "Casablanca" to "Harry Potter." You always have chess as a very important element to demonstrate intelligence, while in normal life people think it's just a weird intelligence - like AI.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

Incredible the animal that first dreamed of another animal.

The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject.

Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

There's no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.

The purest case of an intelligence explosion would be an Artificial Intelligence rewriting its own source code. The key idea is that if you can improve intelligence even a little, the process accelerates. It's a tipping point. Like trying to balance a pen on one end - as soon as it tilts even a little, it quickly falls the rest of the way.

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

It's funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence.

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

At 155, I will be the same animal, an even better animal.

I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence.

If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war is a flimsy structure that can easily collapse and bury us in its ruins. ... Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain. This is true of all intelligence but even more so in the heat of battle, where such reports tend to contradict and cancel each other out. In short, most intelligence is false, and the effect of fear is to multiply lies and inaccuracies.

As a society, we are typically deeply disassociated from animal cruelty, but more than ever, animal protection organizations are telling the backstory.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.

Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.

Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it such as life is on Earth and it's seven billion years old. Let's say that planet evolved intelligence. Well, that intelligence would be way more advanced than what we call intelligence here on Earth. How long has intelligence been around on Earth as we've come to define it?

Over time I think we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence.