Depth Quote by George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

— George Orwell

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.

— Walter Darby Bannard

All we are is a grain of sand that has been imbued with intelligence.

— David Northrop

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Our highest intelligence is deep water flowing into the shallows”

— Jayne Ryan

“How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?”

— C R Strahan

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

— Michel de Montaigne

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

— Baron de Montesquieu

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for…

— Henri Bergson

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

— Edward Thorndike

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson