Highly intelligent Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“If you knew what is was like to be another person, then how could you possibly do something which would cause pain? The problem,…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with…

— Haidji

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

“That is the fantastic intolerable paradox of my life, that I have gone questing for what I possessed initially -- a belief to invest…

— Milton Steinberg

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“People will deem certain new ideas impossible, until they become part of everyday life.”

— Roger Spitz

“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”

— George Orwell

“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.”

— Sonia Choquette

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

“we are basically clinging on to certain outcomes that just aren’t natural or even possible. By holding on to these unrealistic ideas and expectations,…

— Alexis G. Roldan

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche