Intelligent Quotes

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent.

As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.

I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

If you are an intelligent human being then you are interested in climate change because it's the most important issue of our time.

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.

A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

The trouble with making intelligent suggestions is that you're apt to be appointed to carry them out.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

The word 'when' is so important for a people, for an individual! If an individual thinks he won't do it, he'll never do it. Even if he's highly intelligent, even if he has countless talents.

She's quite intelligent, in my stupidity.

The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

I think that intelligent people to a great extent are captives of their time or place.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.