Cynical Quote by Aldous Huxley

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social…

— Arne Glimcher

“Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has done it.…

— Sam J. Charlton

Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty… Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets.…

— Aldous Huxley

We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we…

— Aldous Huxley

“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condom—I just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if…

— Roberta Pearce

“If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends." "We never thought of that," Klaus said.…

— Lemony Snicket

I'm an intelligent man.

— Soupy Sales

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

— Peter Greenaway

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but…

— Leo Tolstoy

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

— Ed Parker

[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For…

— Rene Descartes

“Knowledge as a past fact, as something dead and done with—knowledge by the time it gets into encyclopaedias and text-books—does consist of assertion, and…

— R. G. Collingwood