History is about winners, not about losers. History is about assessing distortions, not copying out truths. History has much to say about the way the powerful handle power, for power engenders records. History is about evidence, and evidence flagrant...
But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she’s not beautiful. There’s a certain set to the jaw and arch to the nose that might, with a following wind and in the right light, be called handsome by a good-na...
I will tell you why we have these extraordinary minds and souls, Miss Whittaker," he continued, as though he had not heard her. "We have them because there is a supreme intelligence in the universe, which wishes for communion with us. This supreme in...
Our intellect is like a judge who decides the ‘right’ course of action. There is no dearth of information or knowledge in the world, and the mind is where all this is stored. A simple computer can beat the mind by storing many times more informat...
The most interesting aspect of leadership is that it cannot be predicted. All great leaders had been quite ordinary in their early years. It was only when they became leaders that people started recognising them as leaders. It is difficult to identif...
If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My Princeton colleague Danny Oppenheimer refuted a myth prevalent among undergraduates about the vocabulary that professors find mos...
The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferre...
How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of one’s place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world dimi...
Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.
Intelligence could be more briliant within modesty.
I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
Intelligence is the key to achieve your dreams.
I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.
