#po

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#intelligence #inventive #intelligence

Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#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

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

Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#poets #intelligence

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#brains #combination #gifted #giftedness #god

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields. ↗

— James Morcan

#genius #genius-writers #geniuses #higher-intelligence #intelligence

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#intelligence

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#art #conceit #else #ever #half

It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.
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— Jarod Kintz

#moron #politicians #politics #intelligence