The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
C.G. JungTag: intelligence reason morality psychology
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan SontagTag: intelligence art scholarship criticism art-criticism scholars interpretation critique
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did?
Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin.
Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Tag: humor intelligence calvin hobbes
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I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim MorrisonTag: intelligence emotions timing
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: wisdom intelligence books
Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.
Jane AustenTag: intelligence stupidity foolishness sense
Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation– the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.
Tag: intelligence impossible hopeless hopelessness inner-conflict ambivalence ambivalent implausible opposing-views
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Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
Kevin SmithTag: intelligence diversity controversy
Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
L. Ron HubbardTag: intelligence progress war ideas conflict battles
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Tag: intelligence belief thought evolution misattributed-to-einstein open-mindedness development new-ideas
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