If the mind fits, shrink it.
Derdi ki, dünyadaki evli erkeklerin yarısı homoymuş, ama kendileri bile öyle olduklarını bilmezlermiş. Eğer eğiliminiz varsa, bir gece içinde homo olabilirmişsiniz. Felaket korkuturdu bizi. Homo olacakmıyım acaba diye dertlenir dururdum...
Hell is just a frame of mind.
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.
Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and ...
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
You create your own reality.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
Common sense is not so common.
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
