Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image ““one is intelligent the more unfortunate as one is”” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.” — Dario de Judicibus Copy Share Image
“Most unintelligent or foolish people do not regard themselves as that; they regard themselves as not-that-intelligent or not-that-wise.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face you; no… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. ” — Don Herold Copy Share Image
“A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.” — Ken Schramm Copy Share Image
“We humans have been brilliantly clever... almost as clever as we think we are, though not, perhaps, as wise.” — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“It is not intelligence but ignorance and insecurity that causes arrogance and other delusions of superiority.” — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
“No one person is inherently more intelligent than another; we all simply excel in different areas of intelligence.” — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
“There exists much more stupidity in the world than intelligence. Intelligence, however, is intelligence just because the stupidity exists.” — Dr. Ashok Anand Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image