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Intelligent Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what…
- One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
- The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.
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