top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
Standard
Customized
More
"Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You looked a little bit smarter when your stupidity lessened a lot."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you want to find wilier race by common sense, then you have just narrowed your searching area."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."
Creativity
"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars."
Man
"Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world."
Success
"I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself."
Motivation
"As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful."
Defense
"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."
Fact
"Even more alarming were persistent rumors that someone had smuggled an Emotion Amplifier on board 'Mentor'. The so-called joy machines were banned on all planets, except under strict medical control; but there would always be people to whom reality was not good enough, and who would want to try something better."
Technology
"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
Power
"And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was not often, but sometimes happened- they burst into tears of utter frustration or despair, their tiny disappointments seemed to him more tragic than Man's long retreat after the loss of his Galactic Empire. That was something too huge and remote for comprehension, but the weeping of a child could pierce one to the heart.Alvin had met love in Diaspar, but now he was learning something equally precious, and without which love itself could never reach its highest fulfillment but must remain forever incomplete. He was learning tenderness."
Emotion
"These leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion."
Politics
bottom of page