Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Busines...s is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and ...with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelli...gence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"... In truth I find it ridiculous that a man of his intelligence suffer over this type of person, who is not even interesting, fo...r she is said to be foolish", she added with all the wisdom of people who are not in love, who find that a sensible man should only be unhappy over a person who is worthwhile; it is almost tantamount to being surprised that anyone deign having cholera for having been infected with a creature as small as the vibrio bacilla.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch th...e unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and... the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that..., in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a... gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »