"Perhaps I really regard myself as an..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.
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More on Self Perception
“I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.”
“Dad," said Will, his voice very faint. "Are you a good person?" "To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up...?" "The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.”
“A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".”
More on Intelligence
“Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.”
“If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.”
“The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.”