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316 quotesObjects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Photography
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.
Truth
Samuel Goldwyn
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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.
Truth
Samuel Goldwyn
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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Education
Remy De Gourmont
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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
Retirement
Virginia Graham
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Optimism
Antonio Gramsci
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What we now call finance is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.
Finance
Robert Graves
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Critics and Criticism
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Ursula K. Le Guin
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Boys
John B. S. Haldane
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Painters and Painting
Hamerton
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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Writers and Writing
Peter Handke
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There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Vaclav Havel
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It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Stephen Hawking
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Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Experts
Robert Heinlein
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Don Herold
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Action
Napoleon Hill
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Success
Billie Holiday
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Children
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Anthony Hope
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Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.
Self-discipline
W. K. Hope
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Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
Secrets
Edgar Watson Howe
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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
Failure
Elbert Hubbard
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Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Elbert Hubbard
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun