Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please…

True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to…

— Corliss Lamont

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices…

— James Howard Kunstler

“academic writing is a process of making intelligent choices, not of following rigid rules.”

— Helen Sword

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Thus freedom is not just the matter of saying ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to a specific decision: it is the power to mold and create…

— Michael E. Gerber

“If you can have what it takes to make intelligent choices and to reach intelligent decisions, you will have the audacity to rule your…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether…

— Alfred Binet

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more…

— Charles Darwin

But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual…

— W. Somerset Maugham

And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few…

— Eddie Redmayne

I prefer rappers who have something intelligent to say.

— Jemele Hill

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And…

— Maya Angelou