Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

The living body is intelligent beyond our understanding; it is incomprehensibly intelligent. — Harvey Diamond
No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'. — Rory Miller
The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you. — Michael J Cohen
The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined… — Derek R. Audette
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to… — April Glaspie
This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent… — Frederick Lenz
All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of… — Isaac Newton
Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not… — Adela Popescu
If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in… — Mahatma Gandhi
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable… — Baron de Montesquieu
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre. — Walter Lippmann
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything.… — Laozi
Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves have strength.Those who… — Laozi
I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model. — Vincent Van Gogh
Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself. — John Keats
Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in… — Paul Gauguin
Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community… — Jon Stewart
They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside… — Anthony Holden
Discipline is the mark of intelligent living. — Sathya Sai Baba
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see… — Paul Klee
Creativity is not an ability that you either have or do not have. It is, for example, and this may surprise you, absolutely unrelated to… — John Cleese
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But… — John Cleese
The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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