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Unfortunately, as Shrub proved, lack of intelligence and unclear speech do not disqualify one for the presidency. Quotes to demonstrate Santorum's lack of sophistication and insight:

( Santorum quotes )

People with disabilities
are never more disabled
than when they are overcompensating.
--Siebers

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than knowledge.
--Charles Darwin

Imagine being lost in the wilderness with a group of 10. Who is the most confident about which way you should go? Always an interesting test.)

(Didn't mean to but both knowledge and confidence tags just created. Not sure I will ever stop creating new tags, sorry. Follow a parallel tag to track the idea farther back. This journal is a form of mind map.)

Life is tough,
but it's tougher
when you're stupid.
--John Wayne

Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity.
And I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein

What skeptical thinking boils down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and, especially important, to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion that emerges out of a train follows from the premise of starting point and whether that premise is true.
--Carl Sagan in his Baloney Detection Kit

( if you want more )

Everyone is a genius.
But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
--Albert Einstein

Everything should be made
as simple as possible,
but not more so.
--Albert Einstein

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Made by dolphins, whales, people, volcanoes, nukes. Very interesting visuals, mostly camera footage, some explanatory graphics.

Found this graphic illuminating:

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

This is terrifically interesting to anyone into music or minds.

( Notes: Charles Limb is a )

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than knowledge.
--Charles Darwin

(for more on the Dunning-Kruger effect)

( notes on sleep from wikipedia and class )

Buddha nature is not regarded as a peaceful state of mind or, for that matter, as a disturbed one either. It is a state of intelligence that questions our life and the meaning of life. It is the foundation of a search. A lot of things haven't been answered in our life - and we are still searching for the questions. That questioning is buddha nature. It is a state of potential. The more dissatisfaction, the more questions, and more doubts there are, the healthier it is, for we are no longer sucked into ego-oriented situations, but we are constantly woken up.
- Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Ocean of Dharma

How Forethought (Not Intuition)
Separates the Good from the Great
Jeff Stibel | October 20, 2010
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/10/how_forethought_not_intuition.html

( text )

a place to assess your diet: http://nutritiondata.self.com/

( Where do kids get too much manganese?? )

There are a couple of clips accessible from here in Mercola's archives that give some brilliant perspective on 1) the movers behind the US educational system, before the conservatives found out that the plan was to intentionally challenge students fixed beliefs and 2) how ignorant the youth today really are, as shown by Jay Leno. Both are worth viewing.

Lunacy = Anything that you and yours cannot comprehend that is suggested by someone you don't know and trust.

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Entries tagged with intelligence

Stupid Santorum

QotD: Overcompensating

QotD: Ignorance Begets Confidence

QotD: Life is Tough

QotD: Infinite Stupidity

QotD: Skepticism

QotD: Everyone is a Genius

QotD: Simplicity

QotD: Consistency

Toroidal Bubbles

Dork, Geek, Nerd, Dweeb? What am I?

QotD: Intelligence

Your Brain on Improv: Charles Limb

QotD: Ignorance

Sleep

Chogyam Trungpa on Buddha Nature as Potential

Forethought

Too Much Manganese Lowers IQ of Children

How We Got So Stooopid Here in Amurika

Lunacy Defined

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