knowledge Quotes

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply!

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.