"Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true."
-Honore de Balzac
PowerView Quote
"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.“
-Honore de Balzac
posted in Intelligence
Other Quotes by Honore de Balzac
Discover more inspiring quotes by Honore de Balzac
"Love is the poetry of the senses."
-Honore de Balzac
PoetryView Quote
"Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."
-Honore de Balzac
FriendshipView Quote
"No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman."
-Honore de Balzac
MarriageView Quote
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."
-Honore de Balzac
LegalView Quote
"First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time."
-Honore de Balzac
TimeView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
-A. A. Milne
IntelligenceView Quote
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
IntelligenceView Quote
"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
-John Keats
IntelligenceView Quote
"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
IntelligenceView Quote
"Wit is educated insolence."
-Aristotle
IntelligenceView Quote
"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
-Ambrose Bierce
IntelligenceView Quote