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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#iq #nerd #nerdery #nerds #truths

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#profound #prophetic #inspirational

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#learning #education

Listening and observing with your undivided attention are the most easily accessible and cheapest forms of useful intelligence. ↗

— Melody Boates

#intelligence

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#comes #die #dying #man #man needs

When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be. It is a world that I have created in my mind and in my own image, and it gladdens me profoundly to see it unfold without original sin, without expulsions and floods and disobedience and illness. When I am a good guest, I have returned to Eden, where everything I need is provided for me, including companionship and a benevolent deity at my shoulder serving me and protecting me. The concept of paradise may be backward-looking but the concept of heaven is anticipatory. Perhaps this is what heaven will be like? A great table of oak worn smooth with age and candle wax; a dimly lit room, a quartet of angels playing Sarah Vaughan in the corner; this blissful throb of quiet, intelligent conversation; bubbling pots and aromatic stews that no one seems to have worked to prepare; and you - you have nothing to worry about, not now, not here, not for all eternity. Leave it all behind at the threshold, forget everything, for here in heaven, you are my guest. ↗

— Jesse Browner

#hospitality #paradise #age

Our highest intelligence is deep water flowing into the shallows ↗

— Jayne Ryan

#wisdom #inspirational

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#intelligence #kindness #wisdom #intelligence

That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#affected #could #decision #how #i

[The laws of logic] were placed in our minds by the Creator during the act of creation. We speak because God has spoken. God is not the author of confusion, irrationality, or the absurd. Furthermore, his words are meant to be understood by his creatures, and a necessary condition for his creature's understanding of those words is that they are intelligible and not irrational. ↗

— R. C. Sproul

#god #logic #the-law-of-noncontradiction #faith