Famous Quotes
"It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely."
More quotes about Intelligence
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
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"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
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"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
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"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 John le Carre
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"By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way."
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"When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt."
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"I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price."
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"I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making."
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"More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature."