Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.
Billie EilishMeditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMy first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
Audrey HepburnMilitary intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho MarxAnd know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.
Jesus ChristIt has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.
Jane GoodallI think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl LagerfeldAh! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Jean-Paul SartreWe like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen KingAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles BukowskiPeople are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
Alice MunroIf the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. LewisLet’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.
Joe BidenIt is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
Abraham LincolnOne man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
George Bernard ShawI come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
Narendra ModiWise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
Benjamin FranklinAccept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
Jordan PetersonFor the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher ColumbusThe best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.
Fidel CastroPeople who boast about their I.Q. are losers.
Stephen HawkingWhen the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiOur global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
Robert KiyosakiPeople were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.
Dolores HuertaCommon sense is the genius of humanity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.
The WeekndYou can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.
Paulo CoelhoI’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.
David BowieFind enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
George Bernard ShawNo notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
AristotleBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonIt is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz KafkaPeople are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will RogersNo one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
H. L. MenckenThe intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry PratchettI don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brene BrownI would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard ShawWhen you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
Eckhart TolleNature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThey say somebody’s ‚street smart.‘ I feel like, if I got intelligence, it’s just a country smart.
Dolly PartonWhen you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
Thich Nhat HanhI think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.
Brian EnoI wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.
Virat KohliMost people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.
Robert KiyosakiThe CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMy mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle ObamaFrankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.
Mark ZuckerbergThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovMany people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
Thomas SowellAs long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Nelson MandelaTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James BaldwinIt occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.
Terry PratchettSometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
George OrwellWhat most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.
Elon MuskThis is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
Arthur C. ClarkeSo much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.
George OrwellI don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
Billy GrahamIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali