And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
Deb CalettiTags: strength people manipulation powerful pity feel sorry smarts
Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.
Adam GopnikTags: intelligence mortality humans ingenuity drive urgency smarts
It's always good to be underestimated.
Melissa de la CruzTags: power war smarts adantges strentgh-and-weakness
Only ignorance excuses stupidity
Nalini SinghTags: wisdom ignorance knowing growing smarts
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11
Walter MosleyTags: writing science-fiction brains smarts
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
Roland BarthesTags: intelligence common-sense feeling smarts
Some years ago I read a book that brought Einstein's theory of relativity down to an eighth grade level. This convinced me that any subject can be made easy. In other words, always beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. This person may, for some reason, be trying to shut you out. You CAN understand almost anything.
Richard J. MayburyTags: intelligence knowledge easy understanding smart anything smarts
Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.
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