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Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.


Neal Stephenson


#christianity #church #intelligence #intelligence

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.


Jen Knox


#jen-knox #philosphy #psychology #intelligence

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.


Sherman Alexie


#book #book-lovers #intelligent #kissing-and-books #romantic

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.


Bertrand Russell


#cleverness #intelligence #smart #stupidity #understanding

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.


Rainer Maria Rilke


#nature #intelligence

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms


Guy de Maupassant


#loneliness #solitude #intelligence

Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.


Warren Buffett


#integrity #morality #intelligence

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#first #him #intelligence #look #men

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.


H.L. Mencken


#gullibility #public-opinion #intelligence

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.


George Bernard Shaw


#intelligence #stupidity #intelligence






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