c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
... He who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new... partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proved by the event.
— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
If you want to heal your heart surround yourself with people that won't tell you hating other people is how you get over being hurt. Surround yourself with people that will tell you to be more like Christ and reach out to those you don't understand or are offended by. Bitter insecure and anxious people will tell you everything you need to hear to help you move on, but very little of it will be the true teachings of Christ.
— Shannon L. Alder
It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.
— Milan Kundera
Ian was the kind of smart that makes your straight A student look like she’d drown in a wet paper bag. Ian was the kind of smart that scares people.
— Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue. And that means we pass up opportunities to make a tremendous difference.
— William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?
— William Inge
If you want to impress someone, simply make up a vocation and preface it with the words “molecular” or “theoretical” (as in “molecular biologist” or “theoretical physicist”). After you do this no one will question the veracity of anything you say—whether it is related to your putative vocation or not.
— Clifford Cohen
...you sometimes note an impatience on the part of a specialist that the public does not show sufficient interest in his assemblage of information as such. He is likely to conclude that the average person is somewhat stupid. The opposite is true. It is a sign of native intelligence on the part of any person not to clutter his mind with indigestibles.
— Freeman Tilden
Well,” Harry said, “look at it this way: Suppose you were an intelligent bacterium floating in space, and you came upon one of our communication satellites, in orbit around the Earth. You would think, What a strange, alien object this is, let’s explore it. Suppose you opened it up and crawled inside. You would find it very interesting in there, with lots of huge things to puzzle over. But eventually you might climb into one of the fuel cells, and the hydrogen would kill you. And your last thought would be: This alien device was obviously made to test bacterial intelligence and to kill us if we make a false step.“Now, that would be correct from the standpoint of the dying bacterium. But that wouldn’t be correct at all from the standpoint of the beings who made the satellite. From our point of view, the communications satellite has nothing to do with intelligent bacteria. We don’t even know that there are intelligent bacteria out there. We’re just trying to communicate, and we’ve made what we consider a quite ordinary device to do it.
— Michael Crichton
If you don't know when your good, how can you know when your bad?
— Will Adolphy
So you are the scribes that nobody and everybody is talking about,” Konrad said. “I don’t know about that,” Malachi said. “I’m not much for gossip.”“Oh, we eminent politicians don’t call it gossip, Malachi. We call it ‘intelligence.
— Elizabeth   Hunter, The Singer
The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.
— Catherine Lowell, The Madwoman Upstairs
An enemy of today is a friend of tomorrow
— Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Don’t let your mind drown out your intuitive voice, train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
* Intelligence is quickness to learn. Ability is the skill to apply what is learned. Competence is the ability and the desire to apply what is learned. Desire is the attitude that makes a skillful person competent. Many skillful people are incompetent. Ability without the right attitude is wasted.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
Your name may be 'writ in water', but for now, you have the great advantage of being a wave that can think.
— D.J. MacLennan, Frozen to Life: A Personal Mortality Experiment
Train your subconscious to be positive by using the heart intelligence.
— Steven Redhead, Unleash The Power of Your Heart and Mind
European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.
— Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi
Smart thinking is to know what you think and why you think it.
— Toni Sorenson
Our minds sometimes think best when fueled by another brain's thought. Be willing to consider what someone else thinks before you decide what you think. That way you can know what you think and why you think it.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
The thing about Smart People is that they seem like Crazy people to Dumb people!
— John Cameron Smith
No one can take what's inside your head once it's there.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Enlightenment is not about attaining an ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Love sharpens intelligence, fear dulls it. Who wants you to be intelligent? Not those who are in power. How can they want you to be intelligent?—because if you are intelligent you will start seeing the whole strategy, their games. They want you to be stupid and mediocre. They certainly want you to be efficient as far as work is concerned, but not intelligent; hence humanity lives at the lowest, at the minimum of its potential.
— Osho, Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
We are explorers. We are at present, as far as we know, the only explorers of the universe. For a long time we thought that ours was the only planet that could support life. Then we found others that could – a few. For still longer we thought we were unique – the only intelligent form of life – a single, freakish pinpoint of reason in a vast, adventitious cosmos – utterly lonely in the horrid wastes of space.… Again we discovered we were mistaken…But intelligent life is rare… very rare indeed… the rarest thing in creation…But the most precious…For intelligent life is the only thing that gives meaning to the universe. It is a holy thing, to be fostered and treasured.Without it nothing begins, nothing ends, there can be nothing through all eternity but the mindless babblings of chaos…Therefore, the nurture of all intelligent forms is a sacred duty. Even the merest spark of reason must be fanned in the hope of a flame. Frustrated intelligence must have its bonds broken. Narrow-channelled intelligence must be given the power to widen out. High intelligence must be learned from. That is why I have stayed here.
— John Wyndham
To be naive is to be unaware of how stupid and cruel other people are; but, by some definitions, ignorance is nearly the opposite of naivety in being a kind of cynicism, in being unaware of their intelligence and humanity. It seems to be a normal although unfortunate case that the great many of us consciously abhor ignorance in others yet subconsciously practice it ourselves: as naivety is apparent and well-known to inflict its damage upon oneself; whereas the alternative and the easier, ignorance, its damage upon others.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Anti-social behaviour is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
— Anonymous
Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.
— Edward O. Wilson, Letters to a Young Scientist
He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.
— Terry Pratchett
Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it....The Great Mendacitor, for example, for nine years in charge of the Saturn meliorization project, did absolutely nothing on that planet, sending out piles of fake progress reports, invoices, requisition forms, and either bribed his supervisors or kept them in a state of electronic shock.
— Stanisław Lem, The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy
Enlightenment is not about attaining a ultimate level of intelligence or intellect. It is regained by shedding all the ideas, illusion and binds thrust on you and that you then so readily accrue.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
You wanted magic, watch". She put her hand into the struggling mass of insects and made a shrill faint piping noise in the back of her throat. There was a movement in the mass, and a large bee lander and flatter then the others crawled onto her hand. A few workers followed it stroking it and generally ministering to it."How did you do that" said Esk."Ahhh," said Granny, "wouldn't you like to know"."Yes I would that's why I asked Granny," said Esk severely."Do you think I used magic", Esk looked down at the queen bee, then up at the witch."No, I think you just know a lot about bees".Granny grinned, "Exactly correct, that's one form of magic of course"."What just knowing things"."Knowing things that other people don't know," said Granny
— Terry Pratchett
Intelligence is an ability to understand, but it is not a substitute for wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
When superstitions enter the world of imagination, then intelligence and science become fiction.
— Debasish Mridha
Then there’s the intelligence that practically radiates from you. Did I ever tell you smart women seriously turn me on?” His thumbs began caressing her cheeks and he bent to whisper close to her ear. “You’re a walking contradiction, Hayden. Prim and proper one moment, wild and uninhibited the next. And the more I get to know you, the more I like what I find.
— Elle Kennedy, Body Check
One of the most obvious signs of intelligence is not knowledge alone but imagination combined with reason.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
The scientific definition of intelligence is the capacity to overcome obstacles
— Mark Colenutt
You will never be able to end any battle if the people involved are unable to see their own hypocrisy, or how their insecurity contributed to their problems. Wounded people often choose to play the victim, so they can restore their dignity in unhealthy ways. Sadly, they do this through feeling justified, by making bad choices or actions (that honestly no diety would want them to do). This inability to accept their part in their unhappiness keeps them from growing. They need your prayers more than your anger. Just walk away. Let it go and pray that one day they will understand your pain, as much as you do theirs. Remember: The sexiest woman alive is one that can walk away from a place that God doesn't want them to be. Do so with your head held high and forgive yourself and others. When you can do this, you will know what God's definition of class is-- YOU!
— Shannon L. Alder
Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.
— Robert Redford
Intelligence is Attractive,Kindness is Heart Melting,But a combination of the two is Irresistible.
— Drishti Bablani
I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.
— James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like being brain dead...
— Vann Chow
They say certain people aren’t good soldiers because if they’re in a foxhole all night—you know, if you’re creative and smart, you’re thinking about all the different ways someone is going to blow your head off. But if you’re not that smart, you’re just like chilling out. And I feel like that in life. I’m just in the foxhole all fucking day thinking about everything that’s going to go wrong in every possible way.
— Judd Apatow, Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
Like all great things which then become fashions, science, as now the universal stamp of approval, probably receives more abuse than any other field of study. Glaze the word itself over whatever vague ideology one may presume ratified, no matter the degree of pseudo-science or lack of scholarly credibility packaged within, and the many will consume it like gravy on a feast. My thought for the time is that as the promise of true science increases, so shall rise its many more superficial counterparts as provided by the agenda-bound trendies and hyper-ambitious laypersons to boot.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I think, honestly, the film industry is eating up comics characters at such a fast pace, and spewing them out as so much unspeakable, stench-y, crap. I mean, I think people are going to get pretty sick of the comics product of superhero, per se. Super-heroism seems to be so visceral for these times. Nobody needs a big clunky guy to throw cars about. You know, we’ve got drunks in town here that can do that. We don’t need that kind of superhero. What we need is a super-sage. We need a genuine group of wise people. We need to become wise. That’s the job of tomorrow; becoming wise, and integrated, and understanding.
— Melinda Gebbie
I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.
— Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people
— Robert Redford
An intelligent person has knowledge, but a wise person has experience with humility.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?
— Rebecca McNutt
If you can bring some light of intelligence into your sexuality, that light will transform it.
— Diana Richardson, Tantric Sex for Men: Making Love a Meditation
terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation
— Michael Harris
IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Konig couldn't help but think of the man as a slab of walking muscle with all the intellect of a pair of cheap shoes.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers.
— Debasish Mridha
I don't desire to be intelligent, but I do desire to be loving and kind.
— Debasish Mridha
Intelligence resides between us as much as it resides in us. And it resides within the subconscious much more than it does the conscious. We’re just conscious-biased: our conscious mind wants us to think it’s the be all and end all.
— James Rozoff, The Association
Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day. (God)
— Shannon L. Alder
Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Lila was able to speak through writing; unlike me when I wrote, unlike Sarratore in his articles and poems, unlike even many writers I had read and was reading, she expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but–further–she left no trace of effort, you weren't aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, I heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, of the confusion of the oral; it had the vivid orderliness that I imagined would belong to conversation if one were so fortunate as to be born from the head of Zeus and not from the Grecos, the Cerullos.
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.
— Germany Kent
Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Everything is possible in America, except the production of intelligence.
— Mie Hansson
Being smart means you learned it well
—  being stupid means you haven't learned it yet
{She] ain’t got the sense God gave a goat.
— Pam Hillman, Stealing Jake
The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn’t afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as “bookfaces” or “unable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,” and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
A Man of wisdom is one who discusses everything other than his achievements, a Fool speaks only of his achievements
— Ramana Pemmaraju
He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
— Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer
Part of her exulted that he’d asked her, out of everyone in the coach, this question; he must think her intelligent. The rest of her, though, wanted to slap herself for disproving his thought. Here was her opportunity to have her fantasy of a deep philosophical conversation come true with Garth, and all she could say was well, not really. Idiot!
— Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom
TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.
— Chuck Klosterman
Science is knowledge meeting humility meeting curiosity: ever-evolving, always learning. Atheism is often but knowledge meeting arrogance: a masquerade under the wing of the beauty of science. Religion is infamously a weight under the one wing; then under the other is atheism, the championed masquerade.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I simply love Drosera plants! Those tentacles, I love those tentacles...~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
On Intelligence:Intelligence will not make you rich unless your intelligence is about getting rich. Corollary: Intelligence will lead one to to appreciate things that cost money over things that make money. Corollary: Being a genius is antithetical to being successful unless you're a genius at being successful. Corollary: Being intelligent does not make you rich but it can keep you from being poor. Corollary: Intelligence leads to interests, mostly not gainful. Corollary: Intelligence is like molasses, with effort, it goes where you put it.Rubbers are best for those who refuse to use them. Corollary: Intelligence adds but stupidity multiplies. Corollary: Reverse evolution is the new norm.Only luck can save one from one's own stupidity.Only idiots regard a second chance the same as the first.The higher the IQ, the greater the chance of self-deception.Still waters are often shallow puddles.
— Kalifer Deil
More intelligent people don't know their mobile number.
— Kaushal Patel
When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
An intelligent man [doesn’t] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods
— Jack Chalker
Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
An intelligent person positively accepts criticism, repeatedly thinks before giving any statement, and is capable of motivating himself/herself to be successful in the terrible situations in the way of life journey.
— Md. Mujib Ullah
But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to be triumphal. Harry Penn was certain that in his nearly one hundred years he had never encountered a soul more intensely marinated in self-satisfaction. Craig Binky's pomposity was often relieved, for others, by what Harry Penn generously termed "Mr. Binky's somewhat inexact intelligence.
— Mark Helprin
I’m more than this kinesthetic intelligence of us trapped in this great chain of being that belongs to all of us.
— Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression
Man was bestowed with intelligence, only to gauge his foolishness!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Be not proud of your intelligence. Be simple, wise, and humble.
— Debasish Mridha
The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.
— Genereux Philip
The internet is where some people go to show their true intelligence; others, their hidden stupidity.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Fake is the new real,You gotta keep a lot a shit to yourself.
— Genereux Philip
If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.
— Genereux Philip
Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
— Elon Musk
They say that wisdom comes from suffering. This is not true. Wisdom comes from having unconditional empathy for all mankind. Any man filled with empathy is capable of gaining valuable insights on the human condition through the suffering of others. You do not need to suffer to know suffering, but you need empathy first to identify and feel the suffering of others around you. If you do not feel love for all mankind, nor see everyone around you as a valuable human and an extension of yourself, then you will never feel real empathy. And if you do not have empathy, then you will not gain, learn and remember valuable knowledge from your experiences, or those around you, so that you one day become wise. Yet most importantly, wisdom comes from having a good memory. If you do not remember anything, or are so disconnected from basic humanism to even care to dissect lessons to be gained from every experience in your life and from those around you - using simple reason and the juggling of feelings, then wisdom will forever remain a faraway planet to you.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote.
— Genereux Philip
Most of us think that being authentic is about being true to what we want and who we are, without regard for the impact it has on others. On the contrary, the authentic self is an intelligence at the core of who we are that is inspired, centered, and connected to those we lead. When we are in this centered place of being we are able to choose behavior that serves the greatest good.
— Henna Inam, Wired for Authenticity: Seven Practices to Inspire, Adapt, & Lead
If ur laptop doesnt smell like fire then ur losing.
— Genereux Philip
What, anyway, was he to say? That intelligence could surpass and excel the blind force of evolution, with its emphasis on mutation, struggle and death? That conscious cooperation was more efficient than feral competition?
— Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games
People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.
— Christopher Buckley
[P]art of having a complicated mind was understanding its limits, understanding that it couldn't think of everything. Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity.
— Jonathan Franzen, Purity
Intelligence is what we learn. Wisdom is what we unlearn.
— J.R. Rim
In our day everyone wants to appear intelligent, one would prefer to be accused of crime than of naiveté if the accompanying risks could be avoided. But since intelligence cannot be drawn from the void, subterfuge are resorted to, one of the most prevalent being the mania for "demystification", which allows an air of intelligence to be conveyed at small cost, for all one need do is assert that the normal response to a particular phenomenon is "prejudiced" and that it is high time it was cleared of the "legends" surrounding it; if the ocean could be made out to be a pond or the Himalayas a hill, it would be done. Certain writers find it impossible to be content with taking note of the fact that a particular thing or person has a particular character or destiny, as everyone had done before them; they must always begin by remarking that "it has too often been said", and go on to declare that the reality is something quite different and has at last been discovered, and that up till now all the world has been "living a lie". This strategy is applied above all to things that are evident and universally known, it would doubtless be too naive to acknowledge in so many words that a lion is a carnivore and that he is not quite safe to meet.
— Frithjof Schuon, Light on the Ancient Worlds
[D]umb evolutionary processes have dramatically amplified the intelligence in the human lineage even compared with our close relatives the great apes and our own humanoid ancestors
—  and there is no reason to suppose Homo sapiens to have reached the apex of cognitive effectiveness attainable in a biological system.
Don't fuckin' sleep on yourself
— Genereux Philip
If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Bitch, if I ain't a G, I'm an OG
— Genereux Philip
I'm the G when you spell OG
— Genereux Philip
Profound thinkers either become astute lovers or rebellious spirit
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I outwitted those that deliberately suppressed me not by retaliating, but by minding my own business, continuing the self-discovery journey and reinventing myself.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!
— Auliq Ice
Ideas are the currency of innovation.
— David Brier
There are many things we don’t understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don’t ever let anybody tell you it can’t be done.
— Sally Fryer Dietz, When Kids Fly: Solutions for Children with Sensory Integration Challenges
Facts and science without the presence of wisdom and reason are worth a little less than nothing, while wisdom and reason without the presence of facts and science are worth far more than people without wisdom and reason are capable to expect.
— Hasse Jerner
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence--whether much that is glorious--whether all that is profound--does not spring from disease of thought--from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil. They penetrate, however, rudderless or compassless into the vast ocean of the "light ineffable", and again, like the adventures of the Nubian geographer, "agressi sunt mare tenebrarum, quid in eo esset exploraturi".We will say then, that I am mad.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.
— Laurent Schwartz
Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.
— Criss Jami, Healology
It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.
— Mark Frost, The Paladin Prophecy
Always praise your kid even if he/she is unresponsive to learning. By insulting them or constantly criticizing them, you will only push them away and make them feel inadequate around other kids. Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath.
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
[O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information coming from [the environment], but transformed in the head into a form in which that information can be used. Wavelength differences in the light out there become coded as 'colour' differences in the computer model in the head. Shape and other attributes are encoded in the same kind of way, encoded into a form that is convenient to handle. The sensation of seeing is, for us, very different from the sensation of hearing, but this cannot be directly due to the physical differences between light and sound. Both light and sound are, after all, translated by the respective sense organs into the same kind of nerve impulses. It is impossible to tell, from the physical attributes of a nerve impulse, whether it is conveying information about light, about sound or about smell. The reason the sensation of seeing is so different from the sensation of hearing and the sensation of smelling is that the brain finds it convenient to use different kinds of internal model of the visual world, the world of sound and the world of smell. It is because we internally use our visual information and our sound information in different ways and for different purposes that the sensations of seeing and hearing are so different. It is not directly because of the physical differences between light and sound.
— Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
[T]he form that an animal's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer model. That model will be designed, in evolution, for its suitability for useful internal representation, irrespective of the physical stimuli that come to it from outside. Bats and we need the same kind of internal model for representing the position of objects in three-dimensional space. The fact that bats construct their internal model with the aid of echoes, while we construct ours with the aid of light, is irrelevant.
— Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
BLACK IS SO FUCKIN' BEAUTIFUL
— Genereux Philip
It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
We didn't do anything illegal, All we ever did was be black.. #BlackLivesMatter
— Genereux Philip
To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.
— Amit Kalantri
A useful education served women best, More thought. To ‘learn how to grow old gracefully is perhaps one of the rarest and most valuable arts which can be taught to a woman.’ Yet, when beauty is all that is expected or desired in a woman, she is left with nothing in its absence. It ‘is a most severe trail for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources,’ she argued.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.
— Gordon Dahlquist, The Chemickal Marriage
Intellectuality" silences OTHERS! "Intelligence" keeps YOU silent!
— Vishwanath S J
These Hoes Just Gon Fuck Who Ever Poppin , You Better Be Careful, When you fuck em' Raw!
— Genereux Philip
His intelligence was just something he'd been born with. Luck of the draw, like being beautiful. It was a rationalization to say that he'd worked hard. It was like being given a fine knife and taking the trouble to polish and sharpen it: it's great that you make the effort, but someone had to give you the knife.
— Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.
— Kelley Armstrong, Omens
Herein is a capital truth. It is not the natural capacity, the congenital gift, nor is it the effort, the will, the work, which in the intelligence as sway over the energy capable of making it fully efficacious. It is uniquely the desire, that is, the desire for beauty. This desire, given a certain degree of intensity and purity, is the same thing as genius. At all levels it is the same thing as attention. If this were understood, the whole conception of teaching would be quite other than it is. First, one would realize that the intelligence functions only in joy. Intelligence is perhaps even the only one of our faculties to which joy is indispensible. The absence of joy asphyxiates it.
— Simone Weil
All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
People, and boys the worst, are so much more intelligent than what comes out of their mouths.
— Bryn  Hammond, Amgalant One: The Old Ideal
When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.
— J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!
— Vishwanath S J
At best, IQ contributes about 20 percent to the factors that determine life success, which leaves 80 percent to other forces.
— Lisa Lantieri
Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.
— Francesca Zappia, Made You Up
We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.
— Neal Stephenson, Seveneves
I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Knowing the truth is so minuscule compared to having the nerve to say it...and even more to live it.
— Criss Jami, Healology
You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.
— Criss Jami, Healology
There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Knowledge is all about knowing it and Intelligence is all about using it
— Prabakaran Thirumalai
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
— Thomas A. Edison
The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.
— Debasish Mridha
There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.
— Jeff Lindsay, Dearly Devoted Dexter
A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.
— Criss Jami, Healology
The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.
— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Just is not by other men of intelligence that an intelligent an is afraid of being thought a fool, so it is not by the great gentleman but by boors and 'bounders' that a man of fashion is afraid of finding his social value underrated. Three-fourths of the mental ingenuity displayed, of the social falsehoods scattered broadcast ever since the world began by people whose importance they have served only to diminish, have been aimed at inferiors.
— Marcel Proust
So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.
— Criss Jami, Healology
You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
— Nikolai Gogol, The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Your brain doesn't know what it cannot do until you tell it.
— Ed Strachar
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
— Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
— Daniel Keyes
…the traditional family structure that More supported in her writings enabled women to 'be intelligent, rational, virtuous, and noble creatures, capable of great intellectual and moral achievements. They had the potential for immense influence on their husbands and sons, on their relations, their servants, and the poor.' More held, therefore, … 'the ideal of rational domesticity helped to liberate the individual within a supportive family framework.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the brightest passages but left out deeper contexts—eighteenth-century Reader’s Digest were quite popular. More cautioned against a habit she viewed as cultivating a taste only for “delicious morsels,” one that spits out “every thing which is plain.” Good books, in contrast, require good readers: “In all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of his work, that the judicious poet commonly reserves those flowers, whose beauty is defaced when they are plucked from the garland into which he had so skillfully woven them.
— Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist
For all who are amazed or annoyed by the diverse quotes, it is just a reflection how a human mind asynchronously changes the thought patterns, un-edited, raw and authentic!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.
— Alison Gopnik
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
— Flavor Flav
That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, inferior in intelligence - which, however, does not justify such slavery
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On The Will In Nature
Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
People expect girls from good middle-class families to be smart -- but what they mean by smart for a girl is to have nice handwriting and a neat locker and to do her homework on time. They don't expect ideas or much in the way of real thought.
— Adelle Waldman, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
You are magnificent - a jewel reflecting inwardly and outwardly, the light of the universe. Observe how you respond to beauty everywhere - you bear witness to everything. Be aware that you, yourself, are an inextricable part of the infinite creative intelligence, and be blessed.
— Jay Woodman
Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.
— Noam Chomsky
Education is the light of our soul and joy of our life. We enlighten ourselves and the world with our education.
— Debasish Mridha
It is spring again, my heart is dancing with flowers with love and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny.
— Debasish Mridha
To be happy, learn to forget and forgive.
— Debasish Mridha
Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Persistence with hope has infinite power, it can create new ways when there is no way.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope has magic in it, it can create a door when there is none.
— Debasish Mridha
Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life.
— Debasish Mridha
Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.
— Debasish Mridha
The only journey worth taking is the spiritual journey within.
— Debasish Mridha
Let your feelings of gratitude dance in your heart and be expressed through your love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
Find the window of unconditional love in your heart and liberate yourself from the prison of judgemental and conforming thoughts.
— Debasish Mridha
We've reached a point in human history where higher education no longer works. As a result of technology, higher education in its traditional college setting no longer works. It will never be effective or progressive enough to keep up with the growing needs of employers who look to college institutions for their future employees.I can appreciate the good intent the college system set out to achieve. For previous generations, the formula actually worked. Students enrolled into universities that were affordable, they gained marketable skills and they earned good jobs. Since there was a proven track record of success, parents instilled the value of college in their children thinking they would achieve the same success story they did, but unfortunately Wall Street was watching. Wall Street, the federal government and the college system ganged up and skyrocketed the cost of tuition to record highs. This was easy to do because not only did they have posters blanketing high schools showing kids what a loser they would be if they didn't go to college, they also had Mom and Dad at home telling them the same thing.This system - spending 4+ years pursuing a college education when the world is changing at the speed of light - no longer works and it's not fixable. We now have the biggest employer's market in human history, where employers have their pick of the litter, and because of this employees will get paid less and less and benefits will continue to erode.
— Michael  Price
When you try to make others happy, happiness will follow you like your shadow forever.
— Debasish Mridha
Today is the most beautiful day to begin the rest of your joyful life.
— Debasish Mridha
To avoid the pain of loss, give up attachment.
— Debasish Mridha
He is the best friend who can see and reveal to you what is the best in you.
— Debasish Mridha
Make inner peace your final destination. Make happiness your life's purpose.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope is the whisper of our soul. It is always with you. So never give up. Persist with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.
— Richard Killeen, A Brief History of Ireland
We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.
— Unarine Ramaru
Needless to say, that meant that the Braekbills student body was quite the psychological menagerie. Carrying that much onboard cognitive processing power had a way of distorting your personality. And to actually want to work that hard, you had to be at least a little bit screwed up.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.
— Tara Estacaan
The best place to find God is not in the temple, but your heart, where kindness and love reside.
— Debasish Mridha
Be a thinker, be a dreamer, be a believer, be a doer, and, above all, be a kind lover.
— Debasish Mridha
Don't try to do great thing, but don't forget to do small things with great care and great love.
— Debasish Mridha
Wherever you are, smile with love like a flower.
— Debasish Mridha
Knowing what you don't know is the beginning of wisdom.
— Debasish Mridha
There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever.
— Debasish Mridha
Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.
— Debasish Mridha
Resentment generates hate
—  love tries to understand.
There is nothing ordinary in life because life itself is mystical, magical, and extraordinary.
— Debasish Mridha