#gen

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. ↗

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly! ↗

#humor #intelligence #mathematics #statistics #education

Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#hobbes #humor #intelligence #humor

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#intelligence

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts. ↗

— Albert Camus

#intelligence #philosophy #scholars #intelligence

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. ↗

— Douglas Adams

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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#intelligence

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#kindlehighlight #wisdom #intelligence

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗