252 quotes found
“European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.”
“The thing about Smart People is that they seem like Crazy people to Dumb people!”
“No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.”
“Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?because if you are intelligent you will start seeing ...”
“You wanted magic, watch". She put her hand into the struggling mass of insects and made a shrill faint piping noise in the back of her throat. There was a movement in the mass, and a large bee land...”
“Intelligence is Attractive,Kindness is Heart Melting,But a combination of the two is Irresistible.”
“I have never met a mentally strong person who wasnt a voracious reader.”
“If you can bring some light of intelligence into your sexuality, that light will transform it.”
“Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences t...”
“He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.”
“TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.”
“On Intelligence:Intelligence will not make you rich unless your intelligence is about getting rich. Corollary: Intelligence will lead one to to appreciate things that cost money over things that ma...”
“More intelligent people don't know their mobile number.”
“An intelligent man [doesnt] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods”
“An intelligent person positively accepts criticism, repeatedly thinks before giving any statement, and is capable of motivating himself/herself to be successful in the terrible situations in the wa...”
“People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.”
“[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own st...”
“Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit”
“THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness Will Bridge It!”
“It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.”
