Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never… — Tove Jansson
I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him. — Sylvia Plath
A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been… — Jostein Gaarder
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. — Neal Shusterman
People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices — Gary L. Francione
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… — Alain de Botton
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil. — Paulo Coelho
Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization… — W. E. B. Du Bois
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster… — B.F. Skinner
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of… — Janet Evanovich
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love… — Robert Louis Stevenson
As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. — Robert Green Ingersoll
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of… — John Cheever
One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice… — Lisa Kleypas
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to… — Steven Weinberg
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited… — Dean Koontz
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city… — Richard Yates
The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? — Jane Austen
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski
Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. — Vladimir Lenin
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that… — Stephen Hawking
The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. — Richard J. Foster

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