Intelligent Quotes
1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors
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I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.
— Gene Tierney
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Intelligent too, ooh you my sweetheart. I've always liked my women book and street smart. Long as they got a lil' class like half days…
— Drake
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Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write…
— Harlan Ellison
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Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
— Peter Singer
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Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained…
— Paul Samuelson
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing...…
— Unknown Author
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The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
— Lucy Stone
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As everyone knows, there is no intelligence in coercion or forcing another into action or realization. And if the name of the galactic game is…
— Jose Arguelles
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Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because…
— James A. Garfield
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Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so…
— John Stuart Mill
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If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now…
— Sarah Moore Grimke
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It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are…
— Hermann Oberth
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The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law, imply intelligent planning…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and…
— Nathanael Emmons
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The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts
— Aldo Leopold
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Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its…
— Bertrand Russell
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The good news is that . . . humans are gifted by the potential for self-awareness and intelligent choice, and knowing our circumstance is an…
— William E. Rees
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Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so…
— Paulo Coelho
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The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the…
— Rajneesh
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice…
— John Ruskin
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A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.
— John P. Kotter
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Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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In a word, removing control farther away from the ordinary citizen and taxpayer is tantamount to giving the intelligent, far-sighted and public spirited elements in…
— Edward Alsworth Ross
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A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of…
— Nicolas Chamfort
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