I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.
George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.