Quote by Marcel Proust
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. – Marcel Proust

Other quotes by Marcel Proust

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Time
Read Quote

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Art
Read Quote

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Infidelity
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status. – Sophia Bush

Category:
Intelligence

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. – John McCarthy

Category:
Intelligence

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. – Herbert Read

Category:
Intelligence

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments. – Randy Forbes

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. – Baltasar Gracian

Category:
Hope

The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve. – Evelyn Glennie

Category:
amazing

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. – Proverb

Category:
Leadership

This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. – Jerry Costello

Category:
environmental