The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
Oscar WildeTags: inspirational intelligence power wealth youth curse oscar-wilde gods brains stupid-people dorian-gray good-looks
Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
Jeremy AldanaTags: humor inspirational intelligence philosophy belief god faith thought quantum-physics theology metaphysics idea light-hearted
Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution
Jeremy AldanaTags: intelligence persecution great-minds
He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction.
Alain de BottonTags: intelligence mediocrity dissatisfaction fault-finding
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G.K. ChestertonTags: intelligence authority
It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
George R.R. MartinTags: wisdom intelligence kindlehighlight
Watson represents merely a step in the development of smart machines. Its answering prowess, so formidable on a winter afternoon in 2011, will no doubt seem quaint in a surprisingly short time.
Stephen BakerTags: intelligence smart watson computing
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Daniel KeyesTags: intelligence education affection flowers-for-algernon
Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.
Tom SharpeTags: humor intelligence
Mental acuity of any kind comes from solving problems yourself, not from being told how to solve them.
Paul LockhartTags: intelligence education problems
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