“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 242)
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Last update Sept. 27, 2023.
History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence." by Oscar Wilde?
Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”
"Why I Am So Wise", 6
Ecce Homo (1888)
“Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.”
Edith Wharton
(1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer
Adlai Stevenson
(1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Radio address (11 April 1955); as quoted in The World's Great Speeches (1999) edited by Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna
Amit Ray
(1960) Indian author
Source: Compassionate Artificial Intelligence: Frameworks and Algorithms (2018) https://books.google.com/books/about/Compassionate_Artificial_Intelligence.html?id=wZt7DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y,
Aldous Huxley
(1894–1963) English writer
Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 270
Context: It is man's intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.
“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”
D.H. Lawrence
(1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
John Galsworthy (1927)
