What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.
Chanctetinyea J.J. OuelletteTags: wisdom intelligence animals communication pseudo-intelligence
The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom intelligence knowledge learning humility determination teaching feelings achievement self-improvement development help inferiority improvement taught barrier helping-hand
To prove to [her friend, Swedish diplomat Count] Gyllenborg that she was not superficial, Catherine composed an essay about herself, "so that he would see whether I knew myself or not." The next day, she wrote and handed to Gyllenborg an essay titled 'Portrait of a Fifteen-Year-Old Philosopher.' He was impressed and returned it with a dozen pages of comments, mostly favorable. "I read his remarks again and again, many times [Catherine later recalled in her memoirs]. I impressed them on my consciousness and resolved to follow his advice. In addition, there was something else surprising: one day, while conversing with me, he allowed the following sentence to slip out: 'What a pity that you will marry! I wanted to find out what he meant, but he would not tell me.
Robert K. MassieTags: intelligence marriage self-determination independence self-knowledge coming-of-age matrimony royalty catherine-the-great
The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.
Robert ReedTags: intelligence belong burden
The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose. I considered warning him that if he fell, he would poke his brain out, but it struck me that losing intelligence was not something he was worried about.
Eileen CookTags: intelligence family brain dry-wit nose-picking poke
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
Tags: intelligence stupidity humour funny
An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.
Ilyas KassamTags: intelligence philosophy creation kassam noetics
I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it.
Erin McCarthyTags: intelligence sociology brains guts academics
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
W.H. AudenTags: intelligence doubt stimulus
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
AberjhaniTags: politics intelligence humanity hatred prejudice ignorance hypocrisy leadership bigotry terrorism xenophobia extremism political-commentary megalomania believing-in-love gun-violence world-suicide-prevention-day human-rights-day police-reform police-shootings coexistence national-history-day gun-laws hate-crimes presidential-election coexisting-together coexistência election-year-politics nonviolent-conflict-resolution political-corruption
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