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Letter "I" » intellects
«The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.»
Author: Lord Jeffrey
| Keywords:
complaining, inferior, intellects, sign, souls, surest, symptom, taken, tendency, whines, whining
«I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.»
Author: Billy Connolly
(Actor)
| Keywords:
higher education, intellects, in case, just in case, scared, Tertiary, viewed, welder
«Great intellects are skeptical»
«The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.»
«Men reap the fruits of their deeds, and intellects bear the mark of deeds performed in previous lives; even so the wise act after due circumspection.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
dues, fruits, intellects, performed, reaped, reaps
«We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
airing, intellects
«On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its 'great intellects.''»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
altitude, A level, bourgeoisie, flatness, Great Plains, hills, insipid, intellects, mound, mounds, The Mound
«Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.»
«I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Choice
| Keywords:
acquaintances, better-looking, careful, characters, choice, enemies, Friends for, good looks, intellects, looks, too-careful
«There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Beyond Reason, collectors, compare, generalize, generalized, generalizes, generalizing, intellects, labors, skylight, skylights
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