#tell

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production. ↗

— Kanye West

#band #british #due #gritty #i

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#below #brute #brute force #force #hitting

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. ↗

— John Ruskin

#like #me #morality #only #taste

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

— Kevin Smith

#diversity #intelligence #intelligence

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

— Richard P. Feynman

#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

#intelligence #intelligence

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

— Fernando Pessoa

#intelligence