"I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
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“I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.”
“I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.”
“I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.”
More on Intelligence
“It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.”
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
“I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.”
More on Knowledge
“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.”
“When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.”
“What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.”