Human intelligence Quote by Josephine Tey

“What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“He'd no time for reports. He suspected that about 95% of the written word was never read by anyone anyway.”

— Colin Dexter

“From early youth we are accustomed to hearing falsified reports, and our minds have been saturated with prejudice for centuries, to the extent that…

— Sanchuniathon

“I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which…

— Charles Darwin

“I could have allowed myself more time. I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.”

— Craig Detweiler

“.I caught a very frail Peter grant shortly before his death. He was in reflective mood, and not at all the monster people portrayed…

— Bruce Dickinson

“Humankind doesn’t have a genuine intellectual memory. They don’t need the Truth. They don’t want to know the Truth.”

— Robert Neil Fleischer

“He would smile at times, but I never heard him laugh aloud,” said Louisa Boggs. “He was a sad man . . . he seemed almost in…

— Ron Chernow

“Most people wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass and paid for the privilege.”

— Sara Gran

“He seemed to understand that resolution didn’t need to have anything to do with truth, and to choose a sense of harmony over insight…

— Alissa Nutting

“They told the truth, but they buried it so deep in the footnotes of scientific reports and the jargon of obscure journals that almost…

— Mary Mycio