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#1

“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: atheism, intelligence

1637 likes

#2

“It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.”
― George R.R. Martin

tags: intelligence, kindlehighlight, wisdom

1488 likes

#3

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: books, intelligence, wisdom

1660 likes

#4

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

1901 likes

#5

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

1760 likes

#6

“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
― Victor Hugo

tags: imagination, intelligence, reason

961 likes

#7

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
― Marie Curie

tags: curiousity, gossip, humanity, ideas, intelligence

1175 likes

#8

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”
― Andrew Jackson

339 likes

#9

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”
― Andy Warhol

tags: beauty, intelligence, pop

291 likes

#10

“Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?”
― John Green

tags: intelligence, nerd, nerds, nerdy, thoughtful

243 likes

#11

“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.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

tags: intelligence

418 likes

#12

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: comprehension, intellect, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, use

516 likes

#13

“Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.”
― Kevin Smith

tags: controversy, diversity, intelligence

216 likes

#14

“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

309 likes

#15

“I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: heaven, hell, intelligence, paradise, stupidity

435 likes

#16

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
― Douglas Adams

tags: intelligence, religion

183 likes

#17

“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.”
― Al-Maʿarri

tags: brains, earth, humans, humor

131 likes

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