Demagogue

Aug. 16th, 2023 05:10 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.”

—Harry Zohn, Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths: Selected Aphorisms



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Human

Aug. 19th, 2022 04:26 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.”

—Terry Pratchett, Foreword from The Definitive Illustrated Guide to Fantasy by David Pringle




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Dead

Jul. 28th, 2022 03:04 pm
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Random quote of the day:

“Those unmindful when they hear,
for all they make of their intelligence,
may be regarded as the walking dead.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 3 (tr. Brooke Haxton)




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Random quote of the day:

“I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

—Fran Lebowitz, The New York Times, August 10, 1994

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Wise

Sep. 13th, 2017 09:55 am
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Random quote of the day:

“There is absolutely zero correlation between intelligence and wisdom.”

—Junot Diaz, interview, National Public Radio, September 11, 2012

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Stirred

Jan. 24th, 2014 10:41 am
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Random quote of the day:

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

—Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Stirred

Jan. 24th, 2014 10:41 am
pjthompson: quotes (quotei)

Random quote of the day:

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

—Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

 emotions4WP@@@

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

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Random quote of the day:

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”

—Bertrand Russell, “The Triumph of Stupidity,” Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell’s American Essays, 1931-1935

 cocksure4WP@@@

 

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Super

Nov. 16th, 2012 09:44 am
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Let’s say that a ten-lane superhighway is being built next to [an] anthill. The question is: would the ants even know what a ten-lane superhighway is, or what it’s used for, or how to communicate with the workers who are just feet away? And the answer is no….If there is [another] civilization in our backyard, in the Milky Way galaxy, would we even known its presence?…There’s a good chance that we, like ants in an anthill, would not understand or be able to make sense of a ten-lane superhighway next door.”

—Dr. Michio Kaku, “Parallel Universes, the Matrix, and Superintelligence”

 

 

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Super

Nov. 16th, 2012 09:44 am
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Let’s say that a ten-lane superhighway is being built next to [an] anthill. The question is: would the ants even know what a ten-lane superhighway is, or what it’s used for, or how to communicate with the workers who are just feet away? And the answer is no….If there is [another] civilization in our backyard, in the Milky Way galaxy, would we even known its presence?…There’s a good chance that we, like ants in an anthill, would not understand or be able to make sense of a ten-lane superhighway next door.”

—Dr. Michio Kaku, “Parallel Universes, the Matrix, and Superintelligence”

 

 

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Brainiacs

Jan. 6th, 2010 09:14 am
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Random quote of the day:


"One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual."

—Sol LeWitt, interview, Art Monthly, March 1993








Illustrated version. )


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