Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. — Oscar Wilde
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. — Oscar Wilde
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. — Henry David Thoreau
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. — Andrea Dworkin
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to… — Frank Moore Colby
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure. — Nicolas Chamfort
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. — Jacob Bronowski
I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. — Tallulah Bankhead
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in… — Aldous Huxley
He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. — Ursula K. Le Guin
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. — Oliver Goldsmith
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate the world with the help… — Erich Fromm
She was short on intellect, but long on shape. — George Ade
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock
If a Coach is determined to stay in the coaching profession, he will develop from year to year. This much is true, no coach has… — Adolph Rupp
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding? — Philip Roth
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould
The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based. — Paul MacCready
To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. — Alben W. Barkley

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