You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.
It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
When my intelligence increases, my belief in any religion decreases.
We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unne...
In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain...
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Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit hap...
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recog...
