“Don’t be a sapiosexual, be a sapiosensual. This is why I say I consider myself a sapiosensual (a term I just made up) because I DON’T LOOK FOR INTELLIGENCE IN A PERSON, I LOOK FOR SOUL, DEPTH, PASSION, VULNERABILITY AND SENSUALITY. All these equates to AUTHENTICITY to me. So, yes, I’m probably snobbish too, I judge a person on how I feel about their authenticity.”
“It is only the dumb beast that understands futile gestures – the cold necessity for them, in the face of all the hard truths. We who hold to the higher aspirations of the intellect, we surrender too quickly. And yet, in looking upon that dog – a creature knowing only loyalty and courage – we find flavours to wound our own souls.”
“The passion of one man will always outrun the intellect of a thousand others.”
“Never confuse being opinionated with having something to say.”
“Intelligence is inversely proportional (contrary) to tongue, more the intelligence, less you speak and less the intelligence, more you speak.”
“The gateways to intelligence are always open, 4IQ is the first step to walk in”
“To be brilliant is not a matter of being right more often than the next fellow; yes, that may be part of the pedestrian definition. It is in large part a matter of holding firm to convictions as long as possible, but not a moment longer.”
“A man that rich couldn t be stupid. Or, Seema thought now, was that the grand fallacy of twenty-first-century America?”
“Intelligence and understanding started as a memory system that fed predictions into the sensory system. These predictions are the essense of understanding. To know something means that you can make predictions about it.”
“I find that it is when an opinion is least wanted, that it is most needed.”
“So as convenient as technologies can be, they also have the potential of making us stupid.”
“How do you know when you re getting dumber? It gets harder, and harder to tell, doesn t it?”
“No one knows where the borderline between non-intelligent behavior and intelligent behavior lies; in fact, to suggest that a sharp borderline exists is probably silly. But essential abilities for intelligence are certainly: to respond to situations very flexibly; to take advantage of fortuitous circumstances; to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages; to recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation; to find similarities between situations despite differences which may separate them; to draw distinctions between situations despite similarities may link them; to synthesize new concepts by taking old them together in new ways; to come up with ideas which are novel.”
“Novelty of outcome + Social Approval of that outcome = fake creativity”
“A very thin line separates wisdom from wickedness.”
“The thinking child seeks equals; the conformist seeks protectors.”
“When someone asks a question, don t assume they don t know the answer. Clever people will always test you.”