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"'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." Miles Kindera 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms." Niall MacDermot 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
".....if you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says Bridge Out, pray for some intellectual understanding of that message, or you're going to have an experience you'll never forget!" Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." Saul Bellow 4.6923 average rating Rate this Quote
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." Rita Mae Brown 3.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.'" Stephen Crane 4.6949 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition." Henry Louis Mencken 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." Euripides 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some." Joe Moore 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind." Eric Mascall 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up." Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 4.4286 average rating Rate this Quote
"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable." Fran Lebowitz Rate this Quote
"American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." Betty Naomi Friedan 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"An intellectual improvement arises from leisure." Dr. Samuel Johnson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself." Albert Camus 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." Albert Camus 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction" Hoshang N. Akhtar 4.5385 average rating Rate this Quote
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Miller Hemingway 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts." John Junor 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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