Intelligent Quotes

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.

A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent.

What I can't do is have an intelligent conversation with [George Stephanopoulos] about a report in "The New York Times" that is unnamed, inconclusive, and based on something that isn't true.

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

American political opportunities are loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.

Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal.

The ultimate goal of mathematics is to eliminate all need for intelligent thought.

I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.

We need to redefine "smart" when talking about things Obama does, 'cause in my world he doesn't do smart things. He doesn't do intelligent things or wise things. He's doing destructive things.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

Wisdom is an affair of values, and of value judgments. It is intelligent conduct of human affairs.

The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.

The moral pleasure in art, as well as the moral service that art performs, consists in the intelligent gratification of consciousness.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.

She's the ulimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love.

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.