Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This… — Gao Xingjian
Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the… — Frantz Fanon
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. — Cormac McCarthy
Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent… — Terry Pratchett
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this… — Neal Stephenson
When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe. — Maya Angelou
There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He became quicker of movement than the other dogs, swifter of foot, craftier, deadlier, more lithe, more lean with ironlike muscle and sinew, more enduring,… — Jack London
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… — Terry Pratchett
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation… — Ian Mcewan
A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and fondling it. Thereby,… — Orhan Pamuk
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid… — Douglas Adams
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the… — Carl Jung
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,… — John Fowles
Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people… — Ernest Hemingway
There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful,… — Gregory Peck
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be… — Thomas Merton
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve.… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught… — Evelyn Waugh
Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate,… — William Strunk, Jr.
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently… — Michael Shermer
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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