Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

—Harriet Martineau

About Harriet Martineau

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Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.

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You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

—Harriet Martineau

More quotations tagged with “intelligence”

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

—George Bernard Shaw

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

—Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth—more than ruin—more even than death.… Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

—Bertrand Russell

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11 Jul 2015 Added