Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

The way my brain works, it created me thirsty. From the off, I was a sponge for information that had emotional connotations, I think that was it. I was brought up to see the world as emotional, and anything that I could get my hands on that helped me explore that emotional stuff, I was fascinated by.

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

Mind is not your intelligence.

And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.