Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Temptations are as thick as the leaves of the forest, and no one can be out of the reach of temptation unless he is dead.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably… — Robert A. Heinlein
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature… — Fred Hoyle
It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He… — John Steinbeck
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A… — Laozi
When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to… — Paulo Coelho
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life… — Frank Drake
We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might… — Don DeLillo
We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is… — Paul Kurtz
Once He created the Big Bang... He could have envisioned it going in billions of directions as it evolved, including billions of life-forms and billions… — Theodore Hesburgh
Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking… — Carl Sagan
An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of… — Rafael Sabatini
If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans? — John Lydon
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to… — Toni Morrison
[...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point,… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries… — H. L. Mencken
I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place. — Miuccia Prada
He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought. — Joe Calzaghe
By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists.… — Rene Descartes
The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in… — John C. Lilly
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages… — William A. Dembski
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. — James Dickey
How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome. — Jack Nicholson
Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism,… — Carlton Pearson
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally… — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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