Top 100 Quotes About Intelligent
#1. You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe. You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet. The tonal language in the song of a humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare. It is not a competition. Well, it is. But don't worry about it.
Matt Haig
#2. I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
Shelley Winters
#3. I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
Walter Jon Williams
#4. The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy,
George R R Martin
#5. As a little kid when I would watch 'Monty Python' ... that would just blow me away because it was just so silly and absurd, but so intelligent, and I loved that.
Reggie Watts
#6. If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.
Shirley Abbott
#7. If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.
Gautama Buddha
#8. If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#9. Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.
Jonathan Rauch
#10. Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny. Not that you aren't attractive. Because you are. Attractive. Oh, bugger ... "
I wait.
"Are you still there, or did you hang up because I'm such a bleeding idiot?"
"I'm here."
"God, you made me work for that.
Stephanie Perkins
#11. Goldie Hawn is funny, sexy, beautiful, talented, intelligent, warm, and consistently sunny. Other than that, she doesn't impress me at all.
Neil Simon
#12. Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.
Rick Remender
#13. Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#14. 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.
Frederick Lenz
#15. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.
George Perkins Marsh
#16. 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.
Patti Smith
#17. A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
H.L. Mencken
#18. You are a beautiful, intelligent woman with a boyfriend who adores you. You have nothing to fear ever - Kellan Kyle
S.C. Stephens
#19. Intelligent people surround themselves with people who
challenge them, not yes people.
Hamza Yusuf
#20. It is up to you whether social, intelligent and wonderful creatures are to be freed from their chains and cages where ruthless people keep them. The animals would, if they could, flee as I did, because a life in captivity is a life full of deprivation.
Natascha Kampusch
#21. Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.
Amar Bose
#22. We think we are intelligent but need an artificial intelligence to really function intelligently!
Alex Pusineri
#23. the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.
Ted Sargent
#24. Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.
Ernest Hemingway,
#25. Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they become. ... which doesn't say anything good about violent, hate-mongering conservatives.
Christina Engela
#26. Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.
Daniel Dennett
#27. The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.
Peter Ustinov
#28. When the intelligent and animal souls are held together in one embrace, they can be kept from separating.
Lao-Tzu
#29. However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
Nikolai Gogol
#30. Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue.
Donna Tartt
#31. Children are inspiring because they are open and a lot more intelligent than grown ups. They also have contagious playfulness and joy. For me as an artist the challenge of having a child is having to think ahead a lot more. Which in a way is good, since I sometimes lack self-discipline.
Olof Arnalds
#32. We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
Booker T. Washington
#33. The masses of Negroes ... particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit ...
Margaret Sanger
#34. When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.
Nawal El Saadawi
#35. If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#36. The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.
Allen Hershkowitz
#37. The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.
Auliq Ice
#38. We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#39. Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.
Oscar Micheaux
#40. An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
Jen Knox
#41. I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.
Kate Beaton
#42. They think the recipe for a 'home-maker' is- a woman who isn't smart enough, lacks skills and above all isn't ambitious enough! Well she is every bit as smart as the woman who puts on a suit to go to work in a man's world to prove- times have changed! She is every bit as intelligent!
Mrinalini Mitra
#43. It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.
Henry Louis Gates
#44. There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
J.B. Priestley
#45. The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
Ednita Nazario
#46. We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.
Karen Armstrong
#47. After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
Georg Solti
#48. What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
#49. Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.
Jim Butcher
#50. Truly intelligent beings do not drop bombs on innocent civilians.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#51. I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.
Norm MacDonald
#52. Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.
Criss Jami
#53. Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.
Peter Buck
#54. As the first human to land on any world outside the Earth, and probably the first living creature of any sort to come from the Earth and reach the Moon, his legacy will be safe as long as intelligent life survives in this corner of the cosmos.
Hugh Downs
#56. When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.
Bill Gates
#57. Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.
Clare B. Dunkle
#58. Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous
Eckhart Tolle
#59. I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.
George Weah
#60. Intelligent people while impulsive, worth less than one stone on the path
Miguel El Portugues
#61. No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#62. That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
Joseph Goebbels
#63. We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.
Paul Watson
#64. Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
W. H. Auden
#65. A Hooloovoo is a super-intelligent shade of the color blue.
Douglas Adams
#66. All through human history, being a moral person and not being pulled into the dramatics and misbehavior of others had caused intelligent people grief.
James S.A. Corey
#67. I'd love to hear what confident, intelligent women in the industry have to say: Rachel McAdams, Carey Mulligan, Angelina Jolie, Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey. I would stand in line all day for that panel.
Nina Dobrev
#68. I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.
Henry Rollins
#69. All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women ... many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#70. Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
John C. Bogle
#71. Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.
Hal Roach
#72. 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.
Ralph Barton Perry
#73. Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.
Beatrice Sparks
#74. Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
Albert Camus
#75. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. - Dee Hock
David Allen
#77. Nietzsche was so intelligent and advanced. And that's how I am. I'm the black, basketball-playing Nietzsche.
Shaquille O'Neal
#78. You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.
Bryan Fuller
#79. A slave should be sincere, loyal, discreet, clean, modest, honest, graceful, intelligent (that is able to learn what is required for her position), respectful of herself and others, observant, attentive, and ethical.
Christina Abernathy
#80. Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
Monica Bellucci
#81. Nothing wrong with appearing to be a fool, if what you are doing is intelligent.
Paulo Coelho
#82. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
Criss Jami
#83. The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting ... or blindly resistant.
Ethan Zuckerman
#84. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Solomon Asch
#85. Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream.
Neelesh V. Sakhardande
#87. Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
#88. There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
#89. The simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. - Leo Tolstoy, 1897
Michael Lewis
#90. My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person. It hasn't got a goddam thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyway.
J.D. Salinger
#92. All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes. (164)
Norman Doidge
#93. I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
Criss Jami
#94. My parents were intelligent and encouraging, but at the same time, they were displeased at me becoming a wandering troubadour and wire walker.
Philippe Petit
#95. When you buy into any version of fear, it can become your experience because your molecules are intelligent and your energy responds to the predominant feeling in your being. The focus of your mind is exactly what gives the orders to create what you experience.
Barbara Marciniak
#96. Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
Kate Smith
#97. I think," said Masklin, "that maybe they're intelligent enough to be lonely.
Terry Pratchett
#98. With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.
Janet Edwards
#99. [Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.
Albert Camus
#100. Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.
Christopher Hitchens
