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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

I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’. ↗


— Stephen King


#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

You're familiar with the theory of evolution?" asked Cabal. "Sir?" "They're about to find out why intelligence is a survival trait. ↗


— Jonathan L. Howard


#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

Infinite is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. ↗


— Louis Zukofsky


#infinity #intelligence #math #mathematics #mind

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum. ↗


— Henry Miller


#debate-fodder #intelligence #reading #wisdom #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. ↗


— Mortimer J. Adler


#children #curiosity #knowledge #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. ↗


— Mortimer J. Adler


#children #curiosity #knowledge #philosophers #philosophy

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence. ↗


— Rafael Sabatini


#intelligence #intelligence






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