Intelligent Quotes
1897 quotes by 1245 authors
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Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket…
— Jim Butcher
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The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power…
— David O. McKay
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to…
— Stephen Hawking
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Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at…
— C.S. Lewis
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Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful…
— John Green
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
— Leo Tolstoy
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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a…
— Aldo Leopold
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
— Yann Martel
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Intelligent men are dangerous.
— Patricia Briggs
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Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the…
— Nick Hornby
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I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe…
— Irvine Welsh
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It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters…
— Robin McKinley
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He who thinks little errs much…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Everything intelligent is so boring.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Cats are cats . . . the world over! These intelligent, peace-loving, four-footed friends- who are without prejudice, without hate, without greed- may someday teach…
— Lilian Jackson Braun
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
— Alain de Botton
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