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Quotations by Subject: Intelligence (24 quotes)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).: Phyllis Schafly
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.: Winnie the Pooh
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer.: John R. Searle, MINDS, BRAINS AND SCIENCE, p 44
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.: David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.: Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

Results from Poor Man's College:

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.: Author Unknown
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.: Author Unknown
An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.: Dutch

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