Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.