wisdom Quotes

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

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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