Intelligent Quotes
I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large
Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good.
Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.
Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.
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 the changing time.
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
The driver of the power of intelligent systems is the knowledge the systems have about their universe of discourse, not the sophistication of the reasoning process the systems employ.
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, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.
An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.
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 is an intelligent Designer.
.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.
My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life.
I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.
While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.
The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.
No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.
If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels.
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.
Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.
One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful