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"Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas."

Susan Sontag 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 Susan Sontag

  • "Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."

  • "Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

  • "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

  • "The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

  • "For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."

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