"To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them."

-- Jacob Bronowski

#Mean Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Source : Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks
“Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”
“I was country when country wasn't cool.”

Source : Song: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Album: Barbara Mandrell Live
“EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; onâ€”onâ€”and out of sight. Everyoneâ€™s voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.”
“I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.”
“Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.23, Penguin
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

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