Quote by Thomas Mann Download Open image ““Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.”” — Thomas Mann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In the end, since it has become easier than ever to make anything popular and appear to be more than it truly is, the… — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
“Popularity does not happen overnight with a blink of an eye. It takes time, effort and creative knowledge to reach that particular goal in… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
“Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.” — A.M. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to show how clever we are by showing how obscure everything is".” — J.L. Austin Copy Share Image
“There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“Where the craving for admiration and approval predominates, intellectual rigor cannot thrive, if it survives at all.” — Maude Newton Copy Share Image
“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.” — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
“The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“But what would be our readers’ reaction if we simply refused to get to the bottom of that question?” — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“O, čarobna organsko lepoto, koja se ne sastojiš ni iz uljane boje ni iz kamena, već iz materije žive i raspadljive, pune grozničave tajne… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
