#intelligence

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ↗

— Russell Lynes

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It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect. ↗

— Alan Moore

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Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious. ↗

— Charles Munch

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The terrorist uses surprise and stealth, and the only way to defeat that is by having accurate and timely intelligence. ↗

— Bill Nelson

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The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. ↗

— Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri

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You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#magic #religion #superstition #intelligence

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties. ↗

— Paul Goodman

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Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul! ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#howl #intelligence

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between. ↗

— Tanya Huff

#thinking #intelligence