Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns. — John Jay Chapman
The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive. — Paul Hawken
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.… — Carl Sagan
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom. — Joseph Joubert
Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence… — Maria Montessori
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. — Victor Hugo
I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest… — Sterling W Sill
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak. — Shaquille O'Neal
We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you… — Jim Valvano
I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl… — Mark Twain
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. — Bill Cosby
Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies. Lagrange… — James Clerk Maxwell
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my… — Rene Descartes
The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We… — Ravi Zacharias
I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent… — Vincent Van Gogh
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh
If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of… — Rajneesh
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of… — Rajneesh
Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion. To feel confusion needs great… — Rajneesh
Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you… — Rajneesh
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. — Lydia Sigourney
Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them. — Peter Ustinov

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