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Category: Intellect, Judgement

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

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

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

3. "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

4. "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

5. "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

6. "There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Louis Aragon

7. "The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. "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

9. "I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

Antonio Gramsci, "Gramsci: Letters from Prison"

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

10. "Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."

Mikhail Bakunin

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

11. "We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "In Search of Goethe from Within"

Quotations about: Life and Death

12. "The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."

Ronald Reagan

Quotations about: Authority, Government

13. "In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting."

Stefan Zweig, "Stellar Moments in Human History"

Quotations about: History and Nations

14. "What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?"

Harold Rosenberg

Quotations about: Richness and Money

15. "All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."

Thomas Henry Huxley, "Collected Essays"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

16. "Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."

William Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

17. "Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation appled to life."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

18. "Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

19. "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

Quotations about: God and Religion

20. "It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Human

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21. "Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Quotations about: Various

22. "Beware of women who read-they also think."

Anne Holt

Quotations about: Woman and Man

23. "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

24. "Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities."

Paul Eldridge, "Maxims for a Modern Man"

Quotations about: Various

25. "Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."

Henrik Tikkanen

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

26. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."

Helen Keller

27. "Wisdom does not trust to probabilities; it always marches in the midday light of reason."

Baltasar Gracian

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

28. "Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears."

Brian Tracy

Quotations about: Richness and Money

29. "Common sense is not really so common."

Antoine Amauld, "The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic"

30. "Reason, vi. To weigh probabilities in the scales of desire."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

31. "If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

32. "Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Robert South

Quotations about: Normality and Madness -:- Various

33. "Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."

Kevin Smith

Quotations about: Various

34. "An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

Dwight David Eisenhower

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

35. "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

Abba Eban

36. "Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once."

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

37. "An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

Edward de Bono

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

38. "Reason in man is rather like God in the world."

St. Thomas Aquinas

39. "I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant."

Alan Greenspan

40. "A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."

proverb

Quotations about: Education

41. "The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

42. "Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met."

Fran Lebowitz, "Social Studies"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

43. "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."

Robert Lee Frost

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

44. "The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious."

P. D. Ouspensky

45. "In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

Galileo Galilei

Quotations about: Science and Technology

46. "Doubt is one of the names of intelligence."

Jorge Luis Borges

47. "Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."

Cesare Lombroso

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

48. "Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

Ayn Rand

Quotations about: Richness and Money

49. "Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community."

St. Thomas Aquinas, "Summa Theologiae"

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Good and Evil

50. "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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