Intelligence Quote by Howard Norman

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

— Anonymous

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“created that melancholy of mind which accorded but too well with the religious gloom surrounding him.”

— Matthew Lewis

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

— Albert Einstein

“There was a time when I looked at the tragic mess they’ve made of this earth, and I wanted to cry out, to beg…

— Ayn Rand

“I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It must have…

— Gary Snyder

“Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I…

— Jane Avrich

“My trouble is that my intelligence is materialistic, agnostic, pessimistic and solitary, while my heart is incurably tender, romantic, loving and gregarious.”

— T.H. White

“He enjoys life - as do all spared the curse of intelligence.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“But man is an odd, sad creature as yet, intent on pilfering the earth, and heedless of the growths within himself. He cannot be…

— E.M. Forster

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce