Marguerite Duras Quotes

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Intelligence is not a science.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.

I like to say understanding is the power.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Intelligence is the seeing of what is.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

People are not stupid.

Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.