Intelligent Quotes

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Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are… — Antonio Damasio
I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of… — Barbara Mertz
The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected… — William A. Dembski
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itselfâ€”not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an… — Michael Behe
I think you're intelligent and charming, and that you're a person with a kind heart. I know that when you want to, you can look… — Nicholas Sparks
She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never… — Tove Jansson
I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him. — Sylvia Plath
A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasnâ€™t. â€˜I have been… — Jostein Gaarder
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. — Neal Shusterman
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices — Gary L. Francione
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… — Alain de Botton
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil. — Paulo Coelho
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster… — B.F. Skinner
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of… — Janet Evanovich
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love… — Robert Louis Stevenson
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. — Robert Green Ingersoll
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of… — John Cheever
One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice… — Lisa Kleypas

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