"The test of intellect is the refusal to…" — Alfred Bester
"The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious."
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27 Quotes by Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The mind is the reality. You are what you think.
- This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This…
- One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.
- You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least.…
- The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.
- Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
- Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
- It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively…
- The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast,…
- Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.
- I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into…
- I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.
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