Intelligent Quotes

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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — Philip Roth
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould
The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based. — Paul MacCready
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. — Alben W. Barkley
I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. — John Jay Chapman
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive. — Paul Hawken
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.… — Carl Sagan
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence… — Maria Montessori
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. — Victor Hugo
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. — Shaquille O'Neal
We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you… — Jim Valvano
I simply canÂ´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl… — Mark Twain
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. — Bill Cosby
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange… — James Clerk Maxwell

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