Abstraction Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact…

— Oscar Wilde

The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

— Denis Dutton

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

— Louis Aragon

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

— C. S. Lewis

Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

— Fareed Zakaria

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence…

— Paul Bremer

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how…

— Stuart J. Russell

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence…

— David J. Schwartz

Profoundness doesn't come intelligence, but from pure knowledge.

— Francelys Melecio

The truly intelligent person is one who can pretend to be a fool in front of a fool who pretends to be intelligent.

— Abhishek Tiwari