Intelligent People Quotes

99 quotes by 88 authors

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose… — Clive Bell
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way… — Edward de Bono
It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of… — David Bowie
Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third… — Benjamin Carson
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother… — Maya Angelou
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. — Stephen Jay Gould
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
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
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
Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the… — Jack Ma
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising. — Adam Brody
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information? — Ryan Holiday
Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be… — Elizabeth Bishop
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists? — Alan Bennett
Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. — Dave Hunt
That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.… — Christopher Cokinos
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians… — George Bernard Shaw
My art, what do you want to say about it? Do you think you can explain the merits of a picture to those who do… — Edgar Degas
If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many… — P.J. O'Rourke

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