Intelligent Quotes
1897 quotes by 1245 authors
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[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my…
— Rene Descartes
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The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We…
— Ravi Zacharias
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because…
— Rajneesh
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If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of…
— Rajneesh
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of…
— Rajneesh
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great…
— Rajneesh
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Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you…
— Rajneesh
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The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.
— Lydia Sigourney
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Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.
— Peter Ustinov
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Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds…
— Steve Pavlina
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For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.
— Laozi
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And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely…
— Isaac Newton
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the…
— Michael Shermer
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To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being…
— Robin G. Collingwood
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is…
— George Will
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I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.…
— Charles Darwin
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... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and…
— David Hume
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