Stanley Marion Garn quotes

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
-- Stanley Marion Garn

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To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.

The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.