Famous Quotes

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."

Simone Weil on Intelligence

More quotes about Intelligence

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

• "We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

  Albert Einstein on Intelligence

More quotes by Simone Weil

• "We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him."

• "To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life."

• "Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication."

• "Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

• "Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace."