"Science has not yet taught us if madness……" — Edgar Allan Poe

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."

— Edgar Allan Poe

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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe has 323 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it…
... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy...
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not…
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so…
Grammar is the analysis of language.
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application,…
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion,…
It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man…
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

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More Intelligence Quotes

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. — Isaac Asimov
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange
People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
Patience is the companion of wisdom. — Saint Augustine
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he… — Sri Aurobindo

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