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Intelligent Quotes by George Orwell
- The more intelligent, the less sane
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
- Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in…
- The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should…
- In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
- Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men
More Intelligent Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical. — Scott Bakula
- I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. — Christian Bale
- Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. — Honore de Balzac
- Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks
- Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. — Dave Barry
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a… — Clive Bell
- 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By… — John Abbott