Intelligent Quotes

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Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he… — Orhan Pamuk
I donâ€™t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces â€˜intelligence. — Susan Sontag
The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. — Colin Wilson
I donâ€™t mind the disapproving ones so much. Itâ€™s the tolerant ones I canâ€™t stand, the ones who smile at Rose, who speak to her… — Franny Billingsley
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane. — George Orwell
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.… — Alain de Botton
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious… — Sam Harris
In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. — Orson Scott Card
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are… — Alan Turing
People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously… — Knut Hamsun
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propagandaâ€™s task to… — Joseph Goebbels
The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so… — Sam Harris
They think weâ€™re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We donâ€™t want them to learn the truth.â€ Rachel — Katherine Applegate
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than… — Bertrand Russell
I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS ' --- Before i met you I spent a lot of time meeting all kinds of people i had… — Susan Polis Schutz
I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the… — Ellen Hopkins
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say. — Pablo Neruda
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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