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  • [I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

    Real   Book   Fire  
    FaceBook post by Judy Blume from Oct 18, 2013
  • Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know.

    Laozi, Lao-Tzu, Stephen Addiss, Stanley Lombardo (2007). “Tao Te Ching”, p.55, Shambhala Publications
  • He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

    Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.304
  • The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.

    Heart   Yield   Brave  
    Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.42
  • The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

    Education   Men   Judging  
    Bence Jones, Michael Faraday (2010). “The Life and Letters of Faraday”, p.198, Cambridge University Press
  • For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

    Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)
  • Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

    Rip   Mean   Intelligence  
  • The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  • I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

    William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company
  • I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

    Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry (2012). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.87, Pan Macmillan
  • Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

    Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.334
  • The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

  • Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

  • Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.

    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.56, Head of Zeus
  • Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.

    Book   Ideas   Two  
  • Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

  • Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

    John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons
  • The truth is more important than the facts.

    Wise   Witty   Truth  
    Frank Lloyd Wright (2014). “Letters to Architects”, p.170, Elsevier
  • Life is a festival only to the wise.

    Life   Wise   Wisdom  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, North Atlantic Books
  • Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.36, Vintage
  • A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

    Smart   Thinking   Simple  
  • If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

    Funny   Smart   Stupid  
  • Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a noble intelligence, but they are not men of taste.

  • There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

    Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”
  • Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

    The Illiterate Digest "Defending My Soup Plate Position" (1924)
  • Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.

  • The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

  • Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

    William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.141
  • For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

    Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage
  • The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

    Frederick Douglass, Milton Meltzer (1995). “Frederick Douglass, in his own words”, Harcourt Children's Books
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