Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fyodor Dostoevsky

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.

Milan Kundera

She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength

Milan Kundera

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Milan Kundera

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Marcel Proust

I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.

Joseph Beuys

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Jose Bergamin

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Joni Mitchell

I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.

Kelly Ayotte

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if its used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think its more effective when its dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

James Surowiecki

Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

James Moore

Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world.

James Moore

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

Norman Vincent Peale

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Epicurus

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Elayne Boosler

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

Edward Tufte

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Hermann Hesse

If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

Henry Ward Beecher

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Henry Flynt

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

Kurt Andersen

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

Narendra Modi

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.