#tell

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#intelligence #madness #intelligence

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#mankind #stupidity #intelligence

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't. ↗

— Nicole Williams

#life #wealth #wit #intelligence

He's one fry short of a Happy Meal. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#intellect #intelligence #obama #humor

Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. ↗

— Ruth Hurmence Green

#religion #intelligence

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. ↗

— Richard J. Foster

#intelligence

Mojawapo ya misingi ya ujasusi ni kuwa na uwezo wa kutofautisha kati ya unachojua, usichojua na unachofikiria. Unaweza kusema unajua wakati hujui. Maamuzi yasiyo sahihi ya kijasusi huweza kuiletea tume madhara makubwa. ↗

— Enock Maregesi

#intelligence

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#intelligence #intelligence

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind