Extremely Intelligent Quotes

#1. The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

Eugene Jarecki

#2. I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

Katharine Hepburn

#3. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Socrates

#4. She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent.

Mimi Wolverton

#5. You know Karen, everybody thinks serial killers are ignorant, but we are actually extremely intelligent.

Mary Burton King

#6. I told you not to confuse forgetfulness with stupidity," Allen said. "She's extremely intelligent. Did you use the audio binder? Give her the Amneoset?

Kim Harrison

#7. To be extremely happy but extremely intelligent is a task of being optimistic without being cheesy.

Criss Jami

#8. I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.

Mary Ellen Mark

#9. 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.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I defy anyone to watch interviews with Ted Bundy and not be taken by him. He was very handsome and charming and extremely intelligent and, you know, that can exist.

Jamie Dornan

#11. I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Stanley Crouch

#12. The ideal girl ... would be kind. That was because she would also be extremely intelligent, and, being extremely intelligent, would have need of kindness to enable her to bear with a not very intelligent man like himself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#13. We Indians are an extremely intelligent people but we can progress as a nation only when we learn the secret of unleashing this positive power of the people. Whenever this happens it disturbs a lot of people - because they know that a giant is waking up.

Verghese Kurien

#14. He would have to get used to it, she thought. He would have to get used to her being more and more preoccupied with books.

Ruth Rendell

#15. There is no doubt that many things in life come to us ... at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

Stephen Leacock

#16. Kosmina adored her new "foulmouthed but well-intentioned uncle." Because, as she put it, "Perhaps we aren't meant to understand him. Perhaps he's as much a puzzle as he is a puzzle master." Hear, hear, Kosmina. But I'm still sending your ass to Louisiana.

Kresley Cole

#17. The fact that someone is not particularly intelligent is no guide in these things. People may be stupid and extremely complicated just as they can be clever and incapable of deep feeling.

Julian Fellowes

#18. Goats are extremely cute and fairly intelligent (for livestock) and, importantly, delicious.

Time-Life Books

#19. Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

Albert Einstein

#20. I had never had to consider what I said; talking to him was as effortless as breathing.

Jojo Moyes

#21. We dare not forget the power of prayer.

Dillon Burroughs

#22. Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.

Yvon Chouinard

#23. Three weeks after our first date, I am thoroughly enjoying spending time with Natalia. She is intelligent, friendly, classy and extremely physical. I think we have had sex on every surface in my apartment.

Sadie Grubor

#24. I think I'm very blessed to have been raised by so many intelligent and impressive women, and now continuing that on a professional level, having people like Sarah and Nadia to guide me through this new phase of my career, is extremely significant.

Zayn Malik

#25. Andrei Yefimych is extremely fond of intelligence and honesty, but he lacks character and faith in his right to organize an intelligent and honest life around him.

Anton Chekhov

#26. The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves

Tim Ferriss

#27. You always have to compromise," Gene said. An incredible statement and totally untrue in his case. "You found the perfect wife. Highly intelligent, extremely beautiful, and she lets you have sex with other women." Gene suggested that I not congratulate Claudia in person for her tolerance,

Anonymous

#28. It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Freda Adler

#29. Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.

Mike Corbett

#30. But we made a pact that night to try. To stay true to ourselves and each other. It's what you have to do when you're a girl. Stick together. Remember what you love. And stay true.

C. Drew Lamm