COLLECTION OF
QUOTATIONS
ON THE INTERNET
|
|
THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF QUOTATIONS ON THE INTERNET |
| Home | Biographical Index | Reading List | Search | Site Notes | Varying Hare Books | | |||
| GIGA Quotes | Quotes by Author | Authors by Date | | |||
|
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. - Saul Bellow I come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction. - John Bunyan Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. - Quentin Crisp The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. - Sigmund Freud Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains. - Hannibal, from Livy, The History of Rome, vol. III (25.11) Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. - Anthony Hope (pseudonym of Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins) God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. - Joseph Joubert To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants. - James Russell Lowell Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used. - Carl Sagan One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart In fact, with movies as with people, sometimes too much unrelenting intelligence is like a hard shell; you need some space of dumbness to let the wisdom in. - Dean Sluyter, Cinema Nirvana It is no proof of a man's understanding to be able to confirm whatever he pleases; but to be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, this is the mark and character of intelligence. - Emanuel Swedenborg (Swedberg) Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. - Peter Ustinov Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it, all give it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the mind and opinion of the age. - Daniel Webster Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
|
|
