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Category: Intellect, Judgement

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

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Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

4. "Only small minds are impressed by large numbers."

Arthur C. Clarke

Other categories: 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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Other categories: 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

Other categories: Art and Culture

7. "Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear."

Joseph Joubert

Other categories: Oration and Silence

8. "The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime."

Mignon McLaughin

Other categories: Love

9. "What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Other categories: Various

10. "Some people look intelligent when they wear glasses, but it's only an optical illusion."

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Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Normality and Madness

14. "Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."

Henri Poincare

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

15. "Thoughts too deep to be expressed. And too strong to be suppressed."

George Wither, "Mistress of Philarete"

Other categories: Various

16. "Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing."

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Richness and Money

22. "If we find a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Various

24. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

Josh Billings

Other categories: 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

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Good and Evil

26. "If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

27. "Stop thinking, and end your problems."

Lao-tse

Other categories: Question and Problem

28. "Reason and love are sworn enemies."

Pierre Corneille

Other categories: Love

29. "Conviction is the conscience of intellect."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

30. "The more you reason the less you create."

Raymond Chandler

Other categories: Art and Culture

31. "Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

33. "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Other categories: 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)

Other categories: Various

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

George Burns

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Reality and Imagination

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

43. "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so."

Bertrand Russell

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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

Other categories: 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"

Other categories: Education

50. "I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

Antonio Gramsci, "Gramsci: Letters from Prison"

Other categories: Optimism and Hope

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