Intelligent Quotes · Page 35

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

— Douglas Adams

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

— Anonymous

“What sounds intelligent in a conversation or a meeting, or, particularly, in the media, is suspicious.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I envision a world where our smartphone is central to our lives in a non-obtrusive and intelligent way.

— Peggy Johnson

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own…

— Garret John LoPorto

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

— Robert Anton Wilson

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

— Orson Welles

In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands…

— R. C. Sproul

You are not intelligent because you have an outstanding education, you can only be intelligent when your walk, your talk and your…

— Anonymous

Organizing atheists is a bit like herding cats; They are on the whole too intelligent and independent minded to lend themselves to…

— Richard Dawkins

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I am drawn to roles that are strong, intelligent, and a little edgy. With Complications, I navigate my character Samantha Ellison through…

— Beth Riesgraf

First, you believe that there is one intelligent substance, from which all things proceed. Second, you believe that this substance gives you…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,…

— Daniel Walker Howe

But know this: as far as a music culture goes, EDM is the one who will accept the kids on the outliers,…

— Kaskade

The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon…

— Thomas Huxley

My friends, I tell you repeatedly that the illusion that Life creates is very, very intelligent. The illusion itself is intelligent! Just…

— Rajneesh

My whole thing is I don't take from Castro being an intelligent man as long as he is doing the thing that…

— Pitbull

Overt intelligent performances are not clues to the workings of minds; they are those workings. Boswell described Johnson's mind when he described…

— Gilbert Ryle

One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

What I like about Layer Cake is its intelligent through-line. First of all, I think it's very close to the truth; I…

— Daniel Craig

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility.…

— Tony Campolo

“A truly intelligent person is the one who can also learn from less clever people.”

— Dario de Judicibus

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

— Sylvia Plath

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

— Laurence J. Peter

“He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.”

— Helen Smith

They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel

— Katherine Applegate

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

— Andre Gide

We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.

— Frederick Lenz

“Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

— Milan Kundera

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

— Robert Kiyosaki

There exist a lot of questions that the fools can ask, and the intelligent cannot answer.

— George Polya

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

— Rumi

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

— Adam Smith

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

— Peter Thiel

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

— Daniel Kahneman

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

— George Orwell