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“When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.”

Men Heart Self Keys Offers Horse Intelligent Explanation Riding Inviting Intelligent Man

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.”

Men May Doe Individual Wish Deals Industry Genius Comfort Horse Absolutes Intelligent Patient Convinced Observation Certainty Steady Despise Absolute Certainty

Author:Walter Lippmann

“We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

Thinking Inspirational Running Bears Ought Seasons Horse Intelligent Honey Bees Grapes Vines

Book:The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius

Source: The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antonius

“Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!”

Stupid Horse Intelligent Noble Silly Shoulders Ignorant Tendencies Judgement Carrie Lions Pigs Elephants Ants Donkey

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.”

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Book:Have His Carcase

Source: Have His Carcase

“One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.”

Religion Animal Laughing Thousand Ten Laughter Horse Anger Intelligent Rage

Book:Prejudices Fourth Series

Source: Prejudices Fourth Series

“So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.”

Animal Quality Special Dog Habit Taste Horse Intelligent Regard Etc Manifest Temper Transmission

Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

Source: The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality

“Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.”

Men Doe Sleep Race Behinds Horse Intelligent Mere Careful Wide Buddhist Awake Careless Hacks Intelligent Man Wide Awake Race Horses

Author:Gautama Buddha