Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a… — Robert A. Heinlein
It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to… — Jon Krakauer
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her many talents, these… — Natsuo Kirino
Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
This man, who for twenty-five years has been reading and writing about art, and in all that time has never understood anything about art, has… — Anton Chekhov
I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw… — Paulo Coelho
Beautiful. You can be taught. Makes my job so much easier when you’re actually intelligent. You’d be amazed at the idiots I’ve come across.” –… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All right, the pendulum isn’t working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it.” – Death “Like gasoline?” – Nick “Yes, Nick. We’re going to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man… — Ernest Hemingway
You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all,… — Joseph Heller
Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She… — Edith Wharton
Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average… — Daniel Gilbert
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative… — Ted Dekker
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your state, if you… — Michel Foucault
Sometimes I even felt like he dated me as part of his plan, like they were going to have a checklist on the application, and… — Maureen Johnson
Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness… — Clare B. Dunkle
...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use… — Doris Lessing
Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in… — Jane Goodall
I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me. — Henry Rollins
It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence. — Tanith Lee
She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love. — Tammara Webber
The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop… — Diane von Furstenberg
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts. — Victor Hugo

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