I am so smart

 

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“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.”
- Alan Turing

nurtured and developed the knowledge of others

"Wisdom can only come from dialogue."
- Socrates

on aging

"You recognize cycles better. And you know you will survive."
- Willem Dafoe

serenity now

"If you worry a lot, fear not—your anxiety just might be a sign of high intelligence."

Full article here.

on the virtues of the long game

"Sure metaphorically you got mobile faster. Didn't have to take the bus. I took public transportation longer, but as you were building quickly your Pinto, I was laboriously, methodically building a Rolls Royce."
- Deferred character formation gratification

not mutually exclusive

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

- Albert Einstein

if you don't know someone ...

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

- Carl Jung

debatable

"Beauty is a sign of intelligence."
- Andy Warhol

"Keep silent and be thought a fool rather than speak and remove all doubt."
- Abraham Lincoln

bird brain

Crows are smarter than dogs. Extraordinary problem solving skills. On par with chimps even though their brains are a fraction of the size. They make tools. They learn from each other.

Story here.

Image source here.

"We've never been smarter; we've never been stupider."
- Douglas Coupland

"Play creates intelligence in children."
- Maria Montessori

"Memory is not the same as intelligence."
- Jed Bartlet

"I'm too dumb to be insecure."
- Michael Caine

Image source here.

"The smartest people in Ethiopia are farmers because otherwise they'd be dead."
- Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn

Image source here. 

"Information is not knowledge."
- Einstein

Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol

Satoshi Kanazawa reports on the link between smart children, and the larger amounts of alchohol they consume as adults. The studies controlled for "both income and education, as well as childhood social class and parents’ education." The study concluded:

“Very bright” British children grow up to consume nearly eight-tenths of a standard deviation more alcohol than their “very dull” classmates.

It's what Oakeshott called "the ordeal of consciousness." When you have constantly charging brain, you need to shut it off sometimes in order to breathe and live. It's no wonder so many brainiacs self-medicate in this way. The key thing, as always, is moderation.

From Andrew Sullivan.

US Intelligence Agencies

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King James Bible

Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore get wisdom:
and with all thy getting
get understanding.
- Proverbs 4:7