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Wed 16 Aug 2023

Demagogue

Posted by PJ under demagogue, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.”

—Harry Zohn, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

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Fri 19 Aug 2022

Human

Posted by PJ under imagination, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”

—Terry Pratchett, Foreword from The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy by David Pringle

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Thu 28 Jul 2022

Dead

Posted by PJ under intelligence, listening, mindfulness, quote of the day, the dead
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Random quote of the day:

“Those unmindful when they hear,
for all they make of their intelligence,
may be regarded as the walking dead.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 3 (tr. Brooke Haxton)

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Fri 13 Jul 2018

Where are they now?

Posted by PJ under children, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

—Fran Lebowitz, The New York Times, August 10, 1994

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Wed 13 Sep 2017

Wise

Posted by PJ under intelligence, quote of the day, wisdom
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Random quote of the day:

“There is absolutely zero correlation between intelligence and wisdom.”

—Junot Diaz, interview, National Public Radio, September 11, 2012

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Fri 24 Jan 2014

Stirred

Posted by PJ under feelings, intelligence, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

—Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

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Mon 28 Oct 2013

Cocksure and cocksurer

Posted by PJ under certainty, doubt, intelligence, quote of the day, stupidity
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Random quote of the day:

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

—Bertrand Russell, “The Triumph of Stupidity,” Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell’s American Essays, 1931-1935

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Fri 16 Nov 2012

Super

Posted by PJ under aliens, intelligence, physics, quote of the day, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Let’s say that a ten-lane superhighway is being built next to [an] anthill. The question is: would the ants even know what a ten-lane superhighway is, or what it’s used for, or how to communicate with the workers who are just feet away? And the answer is no….If there is [another] civilization in our backyard, in the Milky Way galaxy, would we even known its presence?…There’s a good chance that we, like ants in an anthill, would not understand or be able to make sense of a ten-lane superhighway next door.”

—Dr. Michio Kaku, “Parallel Universes, the Matrix, and Superintelligence”

 

 

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