Intelligent Behavior Quotes

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

I think what's really amazing is that given the scale of the web and getting the compute power we have today, we're starting to see things that appear intelligent but actually aren't semantically intelligent.

Sometimes people think you’re smart if you question the status quo, if nothing else.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.

The child's mind is not the type of mind we adults possess. If we call our type of mind the conscious type, that of the child is an unconscious mind. Now an unconscious mind does not mean an inferior mind. An unconscious mind can be full of intelligence. One will find this type of intelligence in every being, and every insect has it.

If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

If you're smart, you often want a feedback loop so you know if what you've done is... is right.

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.

Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.