“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I’ve discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to ment…”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent…You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.”— Adeline Yen Mah, amazon.com
“Essentially, there’s a universe inside your brain. The number of connections possible inside your brain is limitless. And as people have learned to have more managerial and direct creative access to their brains, they have also developed matrices or networks of people that communicate electronically…”— Timothy Leary, tessa.web.unc.edu
“To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”— Aesop Jr., babel.hathitrust.org
“Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.”— Riccardo Tisci, forums.thefashionspot.com
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”— Orson Scott Card, amazon.com
“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com
“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”— Thomas Szasz, whatsupatupstate.wordpress.com
“It is disturbing to see that the current debate over evolution has become us-versus-them. To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn’t make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawk…”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“It’s high time to rescue ‘intelligent design’ from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com