He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Gilks sighed. ‘You’re a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that, ’ he said, ‘but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.
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.
One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
