#wi

There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time in now ↗

— Unsure of origin

#intelligent #wise #inspirational

A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe. ↗

— Fred Hoyle

#intelligence

The more you know, the less you need. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#wisdom #zen #education

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. ↗

— Criss Jami

#articulation #babble #babbling #cleverness #comprehension

The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#planning #principles #wisdom #intelligence

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#enlightenment #expression #face #faces #life

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#iq #nerd #nerdery #nerds #truths

Listening and observing with your undivided attention are the most easily accessible and cheapest forms of useful intelligence. ↗

— Melody Boates

#intelligence

What are wits for unless a man uses them? ↗

— Ellis Peters

#thinking #wits #intelligence

Our highest intelligence is deep water flowing into the shallows ↗