Intelligent Quotes

A caring heart that listens is often more valued than an intelligent mind that talks.

Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

I am a firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution.

The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means.

An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.

Intelligent design, unlike creationism, is a science in its own right and can stand on its own feet.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

[Theresa May] is a very intelligent woman but I don't see much to fear.

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking

The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

Invaluable....the best one-stop source I've seen for what various officials actually said at various times, suffused with intelligent analysis.

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.