Intelligent Quotes

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.

Most of us grow up with a sense of "I'm not intelligent enough." It's such a sad thing that in the West we worship a certain kind of left-brain intelligence.

I don't see why anyone should put me down for my job. I'm bright. I'm intelligent. I turn letters - so what? I also talk. I talk on the show! People know my name on the show.

The great challenge is how to make smart, intelligent art that can speak to everybody.

Inactivity strikes us as intelligent behavior.

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.

Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.

Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

Intelligence is something that is not just thinking, it's feeling. Ultimately, the highest reflection of intelligent life is cooperative life in which all benefit.

Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one.

The world will very soon be divided, unless I am mistaken, into those who still go on explaining our success, and those somewhat more intelligent who are trying to explain our failure.

All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

Being spiritual is a far more intelligent way to exist. It means being in tune with the intelligence of the Creator.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

Legislation is a matter of more or less intelligent improvisation aiming at palliating conditions by means of patchwork policies.

The world is full of beautiful girls. But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented. She brings a hell of a lot to the party.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

What men don't want, in fact what anyone who's any sort of thrill-seeking, intelligent adult doesn't want, is some crushing bore describing their emotions in real time every waking hour.

People say Dolphins are intelligent and that but they’ve never done anything that have blown me away. They say I’m a div and Dolphins are intelligent…It just baffles me.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'