Cognitive Superiority Quotes

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

The empires of the future are empires of mind.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Our brain is almost the same as the chimps', but we have language, we have electronic communications, we've put people on the moon - we are immensely more intelligent. And yet: how come the being with the most extraordinary intellect ever is destroying its only planet?

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.

I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The development of artificial intelligence may well imply that man will relinquish his intellectual supremacy in favor of thinking machines. With oceans of time available for future innovation, there seems to be no reason why machines cannot achieve and surpass anything of which the human brain is capable.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.