Human nature Quote by John le Carré

“changeful, occasionally wise and sympathetic. He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work…

— John le Carré

“That was the trouble with smart men. They thought they had all the answers, and then when life knocked them aside, they thought it…

— Jade Lee

“Man can never eliminate the necessity of using his own intelligence, regardless of how cleverly he tries!”      I”

— Raymond M. Smullyan

“It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupidity.”

— Remy de Gourmont

“He wished he understood better how the pieces of his life fit together. Would another man with these same pieces see the whole picture?...having…

— Tom Franklin

“We feed on genius. . . . Great men exist that there may be greater men.”

— Susan Banfield

“Intellectually curious men become generalists. Intellectually lazy men settle for being specialists.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower…

— Doris Lessing

“Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.”

— Aldous Huxley

“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“While intellect might make a man ingenious, it is passion that keeps genius on its feet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never test the intelligence of a foolish man.”

— Fahad Basheer