Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
Isaac AsimovStichwörter: intelligence
Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.
Lemony SnicketStichwörter: intelligence girl-power inventive
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H.L. MenckenStichwörter: humor politics intelligence belief democracy ignorance government political-commentary pathetic public-office
[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.
Mary WollstonecraftStichwörter: intelligence greatness empowerment gender women beauty history self-determination achievement stereotypes clichés distinction gentleness
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena HorneStichwörter: intelligence work employment jobs employers bosses
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
Arthur MillerStichwörter: intelligence
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
P.G. WodehouseStichwörter: intelligence reading books literature brain-power mental-power simplemindedness
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich SchillerStichwörter: intelligence drama
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
Naguib MahfouzStichwörter: intelligence madness genius mahfouz naguib
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Aldous HuxleyStichwörter: intelligence solitude huxley
« erste vorherige
Seite 9 von 51.
nächste letzte »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.