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"By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely." »Karl Buhler, 1930
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"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." »Niall MacDermot
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"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance." »David Pratt
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"Believing in religion is an insult to God, because God means high intelligence and what intelligence there is in religion? Let us save the God from the religion, from fables for children! God has never spoken yet; He has been remaining in silent for millions of years somewhere outside our universe!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns." »Joseph Weizenbaum
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"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining." »Walter Lippmann
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"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction." »Marya Mannes, The Quotable Woman...on Love & Relationships
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"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction." »Marya Mannes
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"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks." »Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
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"This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the "unconscious." There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our "heart" or intuition, another." »Robert
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"There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing." »John Dewey
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"Communications without intelligence is noise;
intelligence without communications is irrelevant." »Gen Alfred Gray, USMC
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"The “stream” we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence." »Albert Wiggam
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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Half the controversies in the world are verbal ones; and could they be brought to a plain issue they would be brought to a prompt termination. Parties engaged in them would then perceive either that in substance they agreed together, or that their difference was one of first principles. We need not dispute, we need not prove, we need but define. At all events, let us, if we can, do this first of all and then see who are left for us to dispute; what is left for us to prove." »Cardinal John Newman
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"intelligence is nothing without delight." »Paul Claudel
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"I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence." »William F. Buckley Jr.
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"How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it." »Stobaeus
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"Belief is the death of intelligence." »Robert Anton Wilson
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." »Arthur C. Clarke
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"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." »Don Herold
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"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms." »Julius Henry Marx
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"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity." »Remy de Gourmont
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"If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence." »Henry Adams
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"I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." »Frank Kingdon
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