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Intelligent Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
- We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
More Intelligent Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. — Francis Bacon
- In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical. — Scott Bakula
- I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. — Christian Bale
- Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. — Honore de Balzac
- Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks
- Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. — Dave Barry
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a… — Clive Bell
- 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By… — John Abbott