252 quotes found
“Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.”
“Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?”
“Keep quiet and ponder! Speak and say something!”
“Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.”
“Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all the time, some of us are thinking more and some less.Some brains are battling and working and remem...”
“Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.”
“Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its...”
“And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?”
“But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.”
“Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what e...”
“She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches of the world are merely a sign of vulgarity. That was the fact that must have b...”
“One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?”
“Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?”
“I considered quitting graduate school. I paid my ticket, I rode the ride. Right? Half the people I started with quit. I did not have to continue toward scholar. But something wouldnt let me. Some d...”
“I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.”
“She felt utterly crushed and betrayed. Science had betrayed her. She had always believed deep down that science would not judge her, even if people did. Her father's books had opened to her touch e...”
“It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.”
“Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?”
“The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.”
“An enemy of today is a friend of tomorrow”
