Proof that one can be both intelligent and accept the intelligence of those who disagree with you? Why, I should think it would undermine the scholarly world in its entirety.

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity.

If you're going to insist on giving perfectly logical and reasonable answers to stupid questions," she said, "you may put a dent in my delusions of genius.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid

Does anyone not have any problems with taking ideas seriously? I think I'm in this category because ideas like cryonics, the Singularity, <nowiki>[</nowiki>unfriendly artificial intelligence<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and Tegmark's mathematical universe were all immediately obvious to me as ideas to take seriously, and I did so without much conscious effort or deliberation.

Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

To take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness

if you shall seem to some to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence.

I said, 'What? Are you serious?'

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience.

Senator, I'm happy to continue the discussion, but I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly.