Intelligent Quotes

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I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man… — Ernest Hemingway
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all,… — Joseph Heller
Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She… — Edith Wharton
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average… — Daniel Gilbert
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative… — Ted Dekker
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you… — Michel Foucault
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and… — Maureen Johnson
Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness… — Clare B. Dunkle
...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use… — Doris Lessing
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in… — Jane Goodall
I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me. — Henry Rollins
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. — Tanith Lee
She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love. — Tammara Webber
The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop… — Diane von Furstenberg
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts. — Victor Hugo
A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less.… — Vera Nazarian
Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. — Marcel Proust
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened… — Chogyam Trungpa
How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts? Was the eye contrived… — Isaac Newton
The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that… — R.K. Narayan

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