Famous Quotes

"The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit."

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."