Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you… — Julian Baggini
I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or people who cannot… — Vir Das
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and… — Vir Das
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent… — Michael Eric Dyson
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says:… — Helen McCrory
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a… — Colm Toibin
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent… — Aldous Huxley
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New… — Douglas Adams
Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We… — Marya Hornbacher
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… — Christopher Hitchens
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never… — Janet Fitch
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both… — Albert Camus
Ignorance never settles a question. — Benjamin Disraeli
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein
A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon. — Robin Hobb
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in… — Aldous Huxley
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent. — Kevin Smith
and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang… — Douglas Adams
There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had… — Edith Wharton
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of… — Voltaire
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead,… — Kurt Vonnegut
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites… — Jane Austen

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