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“I think a man s wordplay can be so fucking sexy!!! I love a good mind fuck!!”

— Junnita Jackson, Share via Whatsapp

“Eroticize intelligence.”

— Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Share via Whatsapp

“I don t fancy colors of the face, I m always attracted to colors of the brain.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson, Share via Whatsapp

“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

— Johannes Kepler, Share via Whatsapp

“In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.”

— Erol Ozan, Share via Whatsapp

“I mean to say, I know perfectly well that I ve got, roughly speaking, half the amount of brain a normal bloke ought to possess. And when a girl comes along who has about twice the regular allowance, she too often makes a bee line for me with the love light in her eyes. I don t know how to account for it, but it is so. It may be Nature s provision for maintaining the balance of the species, sir.”

— P.G. Wodehouse, Share via Whatsapp

“The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.”

— Al-Maʿarri, Share via Whatsapp

“Many much-learned men have no intelligence.”

— Democritus, Share via Whatsapp

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”

— Walter Lippmann, Share via Whatsapp

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, Share via Whatsapp

“A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher., Share via Whatsapp

“If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”

— Ryszard Kapuściński, Share via Whatsapp

“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked”

— R. Buckminster Fuller, Share via Whatsapp

“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.”

— Martin Luther, Share via Whatsapp

“The thing that s important to know is that you never know. You re always sort of feeling your way.”

— Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Revelations, Share via Whatsapp

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one s own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

— Criss Jami, Killosophy, Share via Whatsapp

“You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.”

— Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Share via Whatsapp