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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant." Lord Billingsley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat." Irish Blessing 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action." William Bolitho 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless." Max Born 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values." Gerald 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation." Kingman Brewster, Jr. 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S." William Seward Burroughs 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values." Willa Sibert Cather 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value." Arthur C(harles) Clarke 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts." Mort Crim 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed." Amanda Cross 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." Leonardo da Vinci 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealised past." Robertson Davies 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth." Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes." (George) Norman Douglas 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss." Dwight David Eisenhower 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." George Eliot 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back." Ralph Waldo Emerson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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