Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Quote by Frank Moore Colby

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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than...

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than...

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of...

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of...

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good...

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good...

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the...

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the...

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man...

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man...

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without...

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without...

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have...

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have...

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to...

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to...

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would...

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would...

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without...

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without...

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what...

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what...

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental...

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental...

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it...

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it...

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts...

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts...

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having...

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having...