Best Intelligent People Sayings
99 Intelligent People quotes by 86 unique authors
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Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine…
— Criss Jami
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Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and…
— Stephen Fry
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I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
— Nora Ephron
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
— Marya Mannes
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Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
— Joyce Meyer
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
— Marcel Proust
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The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle…
— Neal Stephenson
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
— Orson Welles
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I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
— Yann Martel
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Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this…
— Neal Stephenson
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Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is…
— Lynsay Sands
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I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe — the gods…
— Daniel Dennett
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People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to…
— Carl Sagan
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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
— Douglas Adams
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But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be…
— Muriel Barbery
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Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.
— Paulo Coelho
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The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own…
— Tsugumi Ohba
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People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
— Christopher Hitchens
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One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to…
— Steven Weinberg
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
— Charles Bukowski
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The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
— Richard J. Foster
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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
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