Top 1200 Natural Intelligence Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

That feels natural to me, singing in a small group of people I just can't do. You'll never hear me sing at a dinner table or anything, but this feels kinda natural. I've done it many, many times. So, and also, the pressure's off me cos I'm not singing on my own. I'm just doing a few harmonies with my stuffed nose.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

All from other lands, who by the terms of [congressional] laws and a compliance with their provisions become naturalized, are adopted citizens of the United States; all other persons born within the Republic, of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty, are natural born citizens. Gentleman [sic] can find no exception to this statement touching natural-born citizens except what is said in the Constitution relating to Indians.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Information-sharing is elementary to good intelligence work.

You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

I like working with people who respect the intelligence of their audience.

It is my job to know the difference between information and intelligence.

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

If inheritance qualifies one for office, intelligence cannot be a requirement.

Interviews can be stimulating. It depends on the intelligence of the interviewer.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

Nowhere in the Gospels is intelligence praised as a virtue.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Pure no-thing-ness is conscious intelligence.

I like the little chess match of how people move through space. I'm not comparing myself to Michelangelo with this analogy, but he said when he sculpts it's like finding the sculpture within. It feels that way when you are with actors, too. There's a natural way to do this with a natural language that flows and feels like real people talking. And you've just got to find it. So I enjoy that part of the process.

The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.

In my understanding of God I start with certain firm beliefs. One is that the laws of nature are not broken. We do not, of course, know all these laws yet, but I believe that such laws exist. I do not, therefore, believe in the literal truth of some miracles which are featured in the Christian Scriptures, such as the Virgin Birth or water into wine. ... God works, I believe, within natural laws, and, according to natural laws, these things happen.

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

[on the voice of the intelligence] It is drowned out by the roar of fear.

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.

To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality.

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

Intelligence inputs are not something one can talk about.

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

When I was doing mainly music, I used to stick a microphone out the window, into the countryside, and create a live mix. I wanted to put air in electronic music. I record the sounds of twigs, barks, and stones. I've always been obsessed with the idea of combining the natural and the man-made. It's not because I think the technology is crap, or that I'm trying to work against it, but that juxtaposition is truly beautiful. The question of what is natural and unnatural is very open.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

How much beer is in German intelligence?

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not wholly absorbed into the social one is turned over to hygiene. In being seen as no more than the exit of a living creature from the social combine, death has been domesticated: dying merely confirms the absolute irrelevance of the natural organism in face of the social absolute.

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.