In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then people not having socially appropriate responses, having people denying the drama by failing to react to it, and that's a really classic form of humor.Chuck Palahniuk
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.Simone Weil
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.Galileo Galilei
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.Simone Weil
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.Simone Weil
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.F. Scott Fitzgerald
