[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama.
Bart D. EhrmanTag: life intelligence religion literature bible
A person that has more intelligence than education always makes his own grade!
Stanley Victor PaskavichTag: intelligence
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.
John GreenTag: intelligence geniuses prodigies
I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.
Jimmy DoreTag: intelligence stupidity
Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence.
Or insanity.
Tag: intelligence insanity contradictions
The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.
James MorcanTag: intelligence genius thriller author polymath orphans orphanage geniuses genius-writers higher-intelligence
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: science intelligence education
The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.
Allan LokosTag: intelligence buddhism compassion mindfulness
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
Johannes KeplerTag: intelligence criticism approval preference thoughtless
There can be no question that parrots have more intellect than any other kind of bird, and it is this that makes them such favourite pets and brings upon them so many sorrows. ...Men will buy them ... and carry them off to all quarters of the native town, intending, I doubt not, to treat them kindly; but "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel", and confinement in a solitary cell, the discipline with which we reform hardened criminals, is misery enough to a bird with an active mind, without the superadded horrors of ... life in a tin case, hung from a nail in the wall of a dark shop... Why does the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals never look into the woes of parrots?
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However happy you make her captivity, imagination will carry her at times to the green field and blue sky, and she fancies herself somewhere near the sun, heading a long file of exultant companions in swift career through the whistling air. Then she opens her mouth and rings out a wild salute to all parrots in the far world below her.
Tag: intelligence animal-welfare captivity parrots
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