The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.
I normally eat everything under the sun, but once a year, for a whole month, I eat nothing but fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean fish, and I feel great!
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
