Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. — Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. — Benjamin Disraeli
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? — Benjamin Disraeli
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. — David Duchovny
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. — Alexandre Dumas
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. — Isadora Duncan
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer;… — Jonathan Edwards
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. — Albert Einstein
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is no method but to be very intelligent. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose… — Linda Ellerbee
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. — Nora Ephron
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than… — William Feather
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician. — Marty Feldman
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. — John B. S. Haldane
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not. — Gary Hamel
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. — G. H. Hardy
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. — Vaclav Havel
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes… — Stephen Hawking
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet. — Stephen Hawking
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. — Stephen Hawking

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