#lie

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#intelligence #stupidity #truth #intelligence

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do! ↗

— Rumi

#seelie #unseelie #intelligence

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #japan #religion #spirituality #life

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#intelligent #marco #quite #rachel #intelligence

It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us. ↗

— P.D. James

#intelligent-life #pessimism #intelligence

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien? ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#crazy #epiphany #illegal #sunshine #talon

He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it! ↗

— Earl Derr Biggers

#humor #intelligence #smart-women #women #intelligence

Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once in a while, put out something in a nice powder blue and shaped like a footstool or maybe like France. ↗

— Cuthbert Soup

#blue #footstools #france #shape #spaceships

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ↗

— Stewart Alsop

#achieve #believes #defined #essentials #everything

Liberals believe that they can't get a fair shake from the media anymore. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#believe #fair #fair shake #get #liberals