Intellect, Judgement

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

Henri Poincare

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Wither "Mistress of Philarete"

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Levi-Strauss-Claude

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it."

Henry Ford

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Interpretation is revenge of the intellect upon art."

Susan Sontag "Evergreen Interpretation"

Art and Culture

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Saint-Exupery-Antoine-de "The Little Prince"

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth."

Napoleon Hill

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Intellect, Judgement

Truth and Falsity

Various

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Josh Billings

Defeates and Mistakes

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains."

Maxim Gorky

Good and Evil

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Stop thinking, and end your problems."

Lao-tse

Intellect, Judgement

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Reason and love are sworn enemies."

Pierre Corneille

Intellect, Judgement

Love

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Conviction is the conscience of intellect."

Chamfort

Intellect, Judgement

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The more you reason the less you create."

Raymond Chandler

Art and Culture

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intellect, Judgement

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "Aphorisms"

Education

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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)

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

George Burns

Intellect, Judgement

Wit and Humor

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Intellect, Judgement

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative."

John Burroughs

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The trouble with foreign languages is, you have to think before your speak."

Swedish Proverbs

Intellect, Judgement

Oration and Silence

Question and Problem

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson "Journals"

Intellect, Judgement

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 9.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Bertrand Russell

Intellect, Judgement

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Intellect, Judgement

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 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

Intellect, Judgement

Normality and Madness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Alice James

Health and Alcohol

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Louis Aragon

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 2.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Education

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Antonio Gramsci "Gramsci: Letters from Prison"

Intellect, Judgement

Optimism and Hope

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Mikhail Bakunin

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Life and Death

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ronald Reagan

Authority, Government

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Stefan Zweig "Stellar Moments in Human History"

History and Nations

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Harold Rosenberg

Intellect, Judgement

Richness and Money

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Thomas Henry Huxley "Collected Essays"

Intellect, Judgement

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Amiel-Henri-Frederic "Journal Intime"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Amiel-Henri-Frederic "Journal Intime"

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Voltaire "Questions sur l'Encyclopédie"

God and Religion

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Human

Intellect, Judgement

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)