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We are not smart! We buy shit from smart people!
Joe Roganborn 1967Joe Rogan: Live (2006), “The Devolution of Stupid People”
- Comedy
- 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
In my mind’s eye, Horatio.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene II, spoken by HamletIn context
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Intelligence
- Pride
How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter IIIn context
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXIIIn context
I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
Emily Brontë1818–1848Wuthering Heights (1847), Chapter IXIn context
- Sleep
Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXVIIn context
- Genius
- Youth
Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868–1869), Part Second, Chapter XXXIXIn context
- Genius
- Motivation & Goals
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas⁠—only I don’t exactly know what they are!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IIn context
- Ideas
- Poetry
“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter IVIn context
- Comedy
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Time
Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Chapter VIn context
- Faith
The mind of man is capable of anything⁠—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIIn context