Intelligent Quotes

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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. — Charles Kettering
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of… — Margaret Mead
We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity… — Samuel Gompers
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. — Al-MaÊ¿arri
I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity… — Isaac Newton
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in. — Unknown Author
Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being… — Albert Einstein
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one… — Eleanor Roosevelt
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach is just as… — Warren Buffett
Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the… — John Stott
Worry is spiritual short sight... Its cure is intelligent faith... — Paul Brunton
You need to surround yourself with quality human beings that are intelligent and have a vision. — Vince McMahon
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a… — Vincent Van Gogh
I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal. — Nirmala Srivastava
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all… — Alain de Botton
All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. — Thomas Szasz
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books. — Marguerite Yourcenar
The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites,… — Margaret Sanger
Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God… — Michael Shermer
I know no study which is so unutterably saddening as that of the evolution of humanity, as it is set forth in the annals of… — Thomas Huxley

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