Big Books of 2026

Allison Arp > Allison's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 55
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71710 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
    tags: happiness
    15050 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    9166 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Harlan Ellison
    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    tags: ignorance, intelligence, opinions, stupidity
    3096 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: men-women
    2213 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Douglas Adams
    “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: atheism, intelligence
    1635 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: books, intelligence, wisdom
    1658 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Robert Anton Wilson
    “belief is the death of intelligence.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
    tags: atheism, belief, faith, intelligence, metaphysics, philosophy, religion
    987 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Ernest Hemingway
    “An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
    825 likes

    • like
  • #10
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: happiness, intelligence
    642 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: reality
    676 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Victor Hugo
    “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
    ― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
    tags: hell, intelligent, paradise, stupid
    578 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Garrison Keillor
    “When in doubt, look intelligent.”
    ― Garrison Keillor
    tags: humor
    408 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Antonio Gramsci
    “I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
    ― Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Gramsci: Prison Letters
    tags: intellect, intelligence, optimism, pessimism, science, will
    839 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering
    1243 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Toba Beta
    “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
    ― Toba Beta
    tags: hypocrisy, lies, naive
    358 likes

    • like
  • #17
    William F. Buckley Jr.
    “I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
    ― William F. Buckley Jr.
    tags: hypocrisy
    412 likes

    • like
  • #18
    An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.
    “An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
    ― Jen Knox, Chaos Magic
    tags: fiction-writer, flash-fiction, intelligence, jen-knox, philosphy-of-life, psychology, wisdom
    345 likes

    • like
  • #19
    John Green
    “Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?”
    ― John Green
    tags: intelligence, nerd, nerds, nerdy, thoughtful
    243 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Terry Goodkind
    “Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    227 likes

    • like
  • #21
    John Keats
    “The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind
    about nothing -- to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: intelligence, thinking
    264 likes

    • like
  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
    tags: intelligence
    410 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Douglas Adams
    “I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: intelligence, religion
    183 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Shannon L. Alder
    “Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    358 likes

    • like
  • #25
    John Lennon
    “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.”
    ― John Lennon
    tags: beatles, men, women
    6253 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Timothy Leary
    “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
    ― Timothy Leary
    tags: ambition, equality
    5113 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Cheris Kramarae
    “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”
    ― Cheris Kramarae
    tags: feminism, women
    2600 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Charles Darwin
    “To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
    ― Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
    tags: critical-thinking, error, fact, reason, truth
    53 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Charles Darwin
    “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin”
    ― Charles Darwin
    19 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Laini Taylor
    “I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”
    ― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight
    tags: karou
    816 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Allison’s Quotes

intelligence
self-deprecation
happiness
ignorance
opinions
stupidity
men-women
atheism
books
wisdom
belief
faith
metaphysics
philosophy
religion
drinking
reality
hell
intelligent
paradise
stupid
humor
intellect
optimism
pessimism
science
will
265
raskolnikov
suffering
hypocrisy
lies
naive
fiction-writer
flash-fiction
jen-knox
philosphy-of-life
psychology
nerd
nerds
nerdy
thoughtful
thinking
beatles
men
women
ambition
equality
feminism
critical-thinking
error
fact
reason
truth
karou