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1. "Life is lived forwards and understood backwards."
Quotations about: Life and Death
2. "Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
3. "Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
4. "Only small minds are impressed by large numbers."
Arthur C. Clarke
Quotations about: Science and Technology
5. "Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think."
Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy
Virginia Woolf
Quotations about: Art and Culture
7. "Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear."
Joseph Joubert
Quotations about: Oration and Silence
8. "The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."
Mignon McLaughin
Quotations about: Love
9. "What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"
Quotations about: Various
10. "Some people look intelligent when they wear glasses, but it's only an optical illusion."
Quotations about: Reality and Imagination
11. "Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
12. "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."
Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen
Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Knowledge, Ignorance
13. "The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
Hermann Broch, "The Spell"
Quotations about: Normality and Madness
14. "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
Henri Poincare
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
15. "Thoughts too deep to be expressed. And too strong to be suppressed."
George Wither, "Mistress of Philarete"
Quotations about: Various
16. "Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Quotations about: Human
17. "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford
18. "Interpretation is revenge of the intellect upon art."
Susan Sontag, "Evergreen Interpretation"
Quotations about: Art and Culture
Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"
Quotations about: Youth and Age
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21. "More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."
Napoleon Hill
Quotations about: Richness and Money
22. "If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
Umberto Eco
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Various
24. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
Josh Billings
Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Sin and Conscience
25. "A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."
Maxim Gorky
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Good and Evil
26. "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
27. "Stop thinking, and end your problems."
Lao-tse
Quotations about: Question and Problem
28. "Reason and love are sworn enemies."
Pierre Corneille
Quotations about: Love
29. "Conviction is the conscience of intellect."
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Quotations about: Sin and Conscience
30. "The more you reason the less you create."
Raymond Chandler
Quotations about: Art and Culture
31. "Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotations about: Science and Technology
32. "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "A Writer's Diary"
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
33. "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"
Quotations about: Education
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Quotations about: Various
George Burns
Quotations about: Wit and Humor
Sir Henry Rider Haggard
Quotations about: Youth and Age
Reinhold Niebuhr, "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"
Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Life and Death
Alfred Thompson, Baron Denning
Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy
39. "It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."
John Burroughs
40. "The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."
Swedish proverb
Quotations about: Oration and Silence -:- Question and Problem
Charles Baudelaire, "Artificial Paradise"
Quotations about: Reality and Imagination
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"
Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia
43. "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."
Bertrand Russell
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
Bethania McKenstry
Quotations about: Various
Christopher Morley
Quotations about: Normality and Madness
Alice James
Quotations about: Health and Alcohol
47. "There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."
Louis Aragon
48. "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
G. M. Trevelyan, "English Social History"
Quotations about: Education
50. "I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
Antonio Gramsci, "Gramsci: Letters from Prison"
Quotations about: Optimism and Hope