#intelligence

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#during #especially #fools #give #idiots

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#human #human intelligence #intelligence #may #nature

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence. ↗

— Martin McGuinness

#british #bugged #car #course #during

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#dictatorship #enough #imposed #individual #intelligence

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#charles #children #comes #family #intelligence

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life." - Lena Gray ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#waiting #intelligence

Far from being incompatible, politics and Christianity are, in reality, inseparable. What don't mix are Christianity and social apathy. (p. 117) ↗

— Steve Chalke

#intelligence

It was at this time that I formed one of my own insights: it was strange how intelligent people, like Raffles, without being asked, freely spout off their insights and actually expect less intelligent people, like me, to be interested. ↗

— Tom Upton

#life #young-adult #intelligence

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#atheists #bigotry #bigots #christianity #ignorance

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#philosophy #intelligence