Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of… — Frederick Lenz
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. — Paul J. Meyer
I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as… — Criss Jami
You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films. — Max Landis
Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting,… — Richard Linklater
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. — Vernor Vinge
One thing scientists have discovered is that often-praised children become more intelligent than often-blamed ones. There's a creative element in praise. — Thomas Dreier
Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs. — Sidney Hook
When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the… — Barry Lopez
To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who… — Laozi
We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and… — John Dalton
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good for anything. You… — Samuel Morse
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku
Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing. — Kathryn Schulz
Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. — Camille Paglia
Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of,… — Willard Gaylin
Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak,… — Xunzi
I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego… — Frantz Fanon
Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be… — Robert H. Jackson
We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to… — Thomas F. Wilson
While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere… — John L. Lewis
When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or… — Amanda McBroom
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman

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