Intelligent Quotes
1897 quotes by 1245 authors
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One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with…
— Dick Cheney
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I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
— Philip Green
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Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses.…
— Carl Icahn
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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will…
— Amory Lovins
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You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to…
— Charlie Munger
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So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
— Harlan Ellison
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He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.
— Chidananda Saraswati
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this…
— Edward Bernays
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
— James Surowiecki
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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
— Gene Tierney
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Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days…
— Drake
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Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write…
— Harlan Ellison
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Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
— Peter Singer
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Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained…
— Paul Samuelson
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing...…
— Unknown Author
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
— Lucy Stone
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As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the galactic game is…
— Jose Arguelles
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Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because…
— James A. Garfield
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