One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

Robert A. Heinlein
About This Quote

Intelligence is a defining quality of an intelligent being. Intelligence is not just a quality that humans have, but also a quality that animals have. Animals have the ability to learn from their mistakes and make better decisions based on their experiences. They can use their intelligence to make better decisions and choose things that will make them happy. To put it another way, intelligence is the ability to see things from many different angles.

Some Similar Quotes
  1. You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and... - Oscar Wilde
  2. But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence which does not work according to plan, according to a one-at-a-time order of... - Alan W. Watts
  3. I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind. - Jasper Fforde
  4. It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer. - Albert Einstein
  5. It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. - George R.r. Martin
More Quotes By Robert A. Heinlein
  1. Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
  2. Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
  3. May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
  4. Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used...
  5. Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Related Topics