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I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Intelligence
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.
DGDavid Gemmell1948–2006
- Intelligence
I think a comedian’s job isn’t just to make people laugh. I think it’s to make people think.
Ricky Gervaisborn 1961At Piers Morgan Tonight, 2011
- Humor
The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On Reason and PassionIn context
- Emotion
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
André Gide1869–1951“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 317
- Emotion
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
André Gide1869–1951“An Unprejudiced Mind,” pp. 311-312
- Intelligence
[Hollywood films] tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don’t have to think about it. … The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.
Terry Gilliamborn 1940Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)
- Movies
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Genius
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Intelligence
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Ideas
- Talking
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832
- Ideas
The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 382, trans. Stopp
- Genius
- Truth & Lies
Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 428, trans. Stopp
- Science