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1. "Life is lived forwards and understood backwards."

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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."

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Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

6. "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."

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."

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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

19. "Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

20. "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

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

23. "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

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

34. "Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Quotations about: Various

35. "Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist."

George Burns

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

36. "As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."

Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Quotations about: Youth and Age

37. "Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."

Reinhold Niebuhr, "Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic"

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Life and Death

38. "The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country."

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

41. "Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."

Charles Baudelaire, "Artificial Paradise"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

42. "Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing."

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

44. "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."

Bethania McKenstry

Quotations about: Various

45. "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

Christopher Morley

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

46. "One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."

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

49. "Education [...] has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

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

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