Intelligent Quotes

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.

I believe God created the world for a purpose. The Designer of intelligent design is, ultimately, the Christian God.

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

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 grade playground.

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

I would be very surprised if on another planet we discovered a species as intelligent as humans that didn't have narrative, or didn't have art in general.

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.

An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the Creator understands its true nature.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.

MASH offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed.

I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

I don't know if it's really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

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 quick if it's the wrong answer.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.