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Intelligible Quotes (page 24)

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'. Friedrich Nietzsche
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived, this is to have succeeded. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably. John Cheever
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive Karl Lagerfeld
Victor Hugo quote: "Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
Imagination is intelligence with an erection. Victor Hugo
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils". Robert Louis Stevenson
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this? Orhan Pamuk
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century. Nick Hornby
Aldous Huxley quote: "We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long..."
We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence. Aldous Huxley
Emma Goldman quote: "People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence..."
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take. Emma Goldman
Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. Stefan Zweig
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence. Dale Carnegie
My holy of holies in the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love and absolute freedom-freedom from force and falsehood. Anton Chekhov
Socrates quote: "I know I'm intelligent because I know that I know nothing."
I know I'm intelligent because I know that I know nothing. Socrates
Zbigniew Brzezinski quote: "A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but..."
A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently. Zbigniew Brzezinski

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