Intelligent People Quotes
99 quotes by 88 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
— Adam Brody
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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
— Ryan Holiday
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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
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Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
— Alan Bennett
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Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.
— Dave Hunt
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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
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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
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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
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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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