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Intelligence Quotes - Page 12

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

Aeschylus, (2014). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides”, p.96, A&C Black

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.44, 谷月社

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

Larry Niven (1984). “Ringworld Engineers”, Del Rey

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.118, Courier Corporation

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

The poem must resist the intelligence almost successfully.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “Selected Poems”, p.184, Knopf