"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive..." - Quote by Honore De Balzac
Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
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“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”
“Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.”
“It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.”
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
“Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.”
“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.”
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“It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.”
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.”
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”