"Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses."
― Quentin Crisp
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Intelligence
More From Quentin Crisp
- "The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."
- "It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."
- "It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style."
More In Intelligence
- "It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant."― Don Herold
- "My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren’t deeply truly artistic if that wasn’t the way you were engaging the press."― Lena Dunham
- "It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."― Arthur C. Clarke