„Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.“

— Octavia E. Butler

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„Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Yes, he is intelligent. But we must be more intelligent. We must be so intelligent that he does not suspect us of being intelligent at all.“
— Agatha Christie
„If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.“
— Albert Einstein
„Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.“
— Sadhguru