Intelligent Quotes · Page 44

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

— Anonymous

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

— Warren Beatty

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the…

— Theodor Adorno

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The body is intelligent, I think. It knows how to say what it means to be alive better than the mind ever…

— Ken Liu

In order to be truly intelligent, computers must understand - that is probably the critical word.

— Paul Allen

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.

— Norm MacDonald

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.

— Vernon Howard

The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more…

— Margaret Sanger

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about…

— Lynn Shelton

The Venus Project is neither Utopian nor Orwellian, nor does it reflect the dreams of impractical idealists. Instead, it presents attainable goals…

— Jacque Fresco

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much…

— Oliviero Toscani

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're…

— Tom Chatfield

While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative…

— Colm Toibin

I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the…

— Bette Midler

For me, having superior intelligence is not a gift but rather a curse!! Everyone looks at you as a knowledgeable person with…

— Shinchan

I cannot think of a more personally rewarding and appropriate use of wealth than to give while one is living - to…

— Chuck Feeney

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight…

— Colm Toibin

I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed…

— Criss Jami

Every disastrous accident alarms us, and sets us on enquiries concerning the principles whence it arose: Apprehensions spring up with regard to…

— David Hume

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your…

— Lorde

I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all…

— Joel McHale

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.

— Susan Piver

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

— Ernest Holmes

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

— James Dickey

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

— Bill Watterson

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

— Richard Paul Evans

“A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.”

— John Gray

He's a gritty hockey player, he's got good vision, he's an intelligent player.

— John Muckler

I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.

— Olivia Newton-John

Some males are intelligent, some are dumb. Some females are intelligent, some are dumb. We're all human beings, no one is superior.

— Tenzin Palmo

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

— Maurice Saatchi

...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

— Stephen Fry

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.

— Joe Calzaghe

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

— Jose Mourinho

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

— Jennifer Grey

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

— Tanith Lee