Intelligent Quotes

1897 Intelligent quotes by 1245 unique authors

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds… — Steve Pavlina
For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance. — Laozi
And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely… — Isaac Newton
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the… — Michael Shermer
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is… — George Will
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God,… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
... The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and… — David Hume
... superstitions, which, being unable to defend themselves on fair ground, raise these intangling brambles to cover and protect their weakness. Chased from the open… — David Hume
There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive… — Michael Pollan
Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded… — Lachlan Murdoch
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. — Lord Kelvin
The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance… — Richard Dawkins
Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the word `ecstasy`: to stand out.… — Rajneesh
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us… — George Sand
An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full… — Rajneesh
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the… — Rajneesh
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence. — Mignon McLaughlin
Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing. — Scott Simon
Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant. — Carl Pfeiffer
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy. — Laurence Olivier
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is… — Michael J. Saylor

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