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The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerous. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#danger #intelligence #strategy #intelligence

The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with. ↗

— Alton Brown

#both #frustrating #i #i am #junkie

Every true genius is bound to be naive. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#bound #every #genius #naive #true

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences. ↗

— Michael Crichton

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#noise #noise-pollution #intelligence

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#labour #pacifism #peace #war #intelligence

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#thought #intelligence

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#intelligence #terror #intelligence

The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie one’s beliefs. ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. ↗