#tell

Intelligence is not found when you have a plan, rather it's measured when you have no clue what you're doing. ↗

— Charlie 'Gale'

#intelligence #humor

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. ↗

— Herman Melville

#intellect #mental #humor

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#honesty #self-disclosure #truth-telling #courage

In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the parking lot of a café in Santa Rosa called Galileo’s. / Teller: A Novel ↗

— Frederick Weisel

#mystery #teller #weisel #death

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. ↗

— Tariq Ramadan

#intellect #faith

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. ↗

— Isaac Newton

#intelligent-design #religion #religion-and-science #science #science-and-religion

He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#intellect #jamie-weise #love #love-story #possess

A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#humor #ignorance #intelligence #wisdom #humor

The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast. ↗

— Roger Eschbacher

#practicality-for-intellectuals #swords #writing #humor

My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#storytelling #storytelling