“Beauty is all very well. But it is merely the gleam of the sword, the chief eunuch said. It is the mind that provides the sharp blade, and without that, well. We have a pretty piece of metal and not a weapon at all.”
“Inteligente. For years it had been enough to be the intelligent one. All that had meant, in the beginning, was that you could answer the kinds of questions that your teachers asked. The whole world appeared to be fact-based, and that had been a relief to Greer, who could dredge up facts with great ease, a magician pulling coins from behind any available ear. Facts appeared before her, and the she simply articulated them, and in this way she became known as the smartest one in her glass.”
“The problem now arises of the observer and the observed. The observer says, “I am empty; I don’t like it,” and runs away from it. The observer says, “I am different from the emptiness.” But the observer is the emptiness; it is not emptiness seen by an observer. The observer is the observed. There is a tremendous revolution in thinking, in feeling, when that takes place.”
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”
“Knowledge is not intelligence”
“But l’m good at being uncomfortable So I can’t stop changing all the time.”
“Human behavior makes it hard to believe in human intelligence.”
“İt is not true that the more you read, the more intelligent you become. Without thinking you cannot be intelligent. You need to think in order to avoid ready-form answers, which can satisfy the inquisitive mind, but cannot give a clear insight into anything, making the brain only some kind of container of various information similar to the microchip of robot or computer. You would become a social robot whose brain contains various information but cannot think. That is why most men know a lot, but learn nothing from that knowledge. Most men know a lot, but can understand nothing on the base of that knowledge. However, it is not also true that the more you think, the more intelligent you become. Without reading you cannot be intelligent. You need to read, especially scientific literature, in order to model any problem which fascinates your mind in a proper and clear way. There cannot be vacuum in the human mind, if there is no scientific rationality there, then mystical irrationality would cover the whole space in your mind. There is no need to emphasize that being under the strong influence of mystical irrationality would confuse your mind more and more. But if scientific rationality appears, mystical irrationality disappears immediately.”
“The only unseemly thing is to not channel your intelligence usefully.”
“Maybe I m just a crazy lady who has wandered off the street and into this classroom and started explaining the mysteries of life to these young people. And they believe me, although I am utterly mistaken about simply everything.”
“tienes un problema muy complicado con una solución muy sencilla.”
“The pen. To child - a toy. To youth - a curiosity. To mature - a pen. To intelligent - the tip of a spear. To creative - an arrow. To angels - music. To god - a sun.”
“You cannot rely on your intelligence to move mountains; you need a great deal of Grace, but that requires faith.”
“Will finds the way but skill gets the credit.”
“Κέρδισα, μα θα μπορούσα να είχα χάσει. Οι άλλοι με θεώρησαν σοφό επειδή κέρδισα, δεν γνώριζαν όμως τις πολυάριθμες περιπτώσεις όπου υπήρξα ανόητος επειδή έχασα, και δεν ήξεραν ότι λίγες στιγμές πριν κερδίσω δεν ήμουν καν σίγουρος ότι δεν είχα χάσει... ..Κι έτσι για να μην φανώ αργότερα ανόητος, αρνούμαι να φανώ έξυπνος τώρα.”
“Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.”
“When I look around, I sometimes feel discouraged. Why do people make no more effort? They do nothing and yet they complain that it is unfair. I looked speechless at the ham. The way I look at it, people make an effort so that they are about to sign, but maybe I m wrong They do not exert themselves, they just toil in it, he said without further ado. It has nothing to do with the type of effort I m talking about. It s more active and focused.”