Famous Quotes

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

Ian Mcewan 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 Ian Mcewan

• "What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?"

• "One has to have the courage of one's pessimism."

• "My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively."

• "In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot."

• "A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew."