Intelligent Quotes

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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. — Orson Welles
I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse. — Mary Wesley
Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. — Alfred North Whitehead
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be… — E. O. Wilson
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. — Robert Anton Wilson
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind… — Virginia Woolf
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. — Andrew Young
True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you… — Julian Baggini
I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot… — Vir Das
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and… — Vir Das
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent… — Michael Eric Dyson
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says:… — Helen McCrory
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a… — Colm Toibin
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent… — Aldous Huxley
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâ€”the wheel, New… — Douglas Adams
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We… — Marya Hornbacher

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