"Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation." ― Aldous Huxley Topic(s): Best Tags: cynical, intelligent, realism More From Aldous Huxley "Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you." "There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness." "Experience teaches only the teachable." More In Best "Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."― Jean de la Bruyere "Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so."― Aristotle "No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete."― Gilbert K. Chesterton