Top 100 Quotes About Intelligent People
#1. Mongers have been able to convince otherwise intelligent people that wrong is right, discrimination is appropriate, and division is unifying. It is among the most frightening and dangerous of their abilities." And
April White
#2. Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this reality, civilization becomes clearer and unfortunately, more distressing.
D.A. Blankinship
#3. I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time.
Richard Bausch
#4. We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Clive Bell
#5. People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan
#6. The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.
Richard J. Foster
#7. Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.
Doris Betts
#8. Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles
#9. Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.
Jack Ma
#10. Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves.
Jerry Baldwin
#12. Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.
Gene Ween
#13. Bill Bradfield gave Jack Holtz the stare, but Jack Holtz stared back and said, "That bullshit only works on intelligent people.
Joseph Wambaugh
#14. Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing.
Scott Simon
#15. It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
Dan Barker
#16. You know that even very intelligent people glory in being able to empty one bottle more than the next man.
Albert Camus
#17. What is it, the difference between ordinary people and those with genius? Not just ordinary people either. Intelligent people, sensitive ones, exceptionally talented ones. Even people like Sonja who give everything and then more, who work harder than seems possible on the thing they love.
Anna Smaill
#18. I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
#19. I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
Criss Jami
#20. Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.
Eva Rice
#21. 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
#22. Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.
Dave Hunt
#23. consensus is usually not achievable. The likelihood of six intelligent people coming to a sincere and complete agreement on a complex and important topic is very low.
Patrick Lencioni
#24. 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
#25. The widest point of disagreement between two intelligent people who can talk to each other is where there is the most to be learned.
Brett Ashton
#26. It is this fear of a supposedly dangerous mob that makes nearly all intelligent people conservative in their opinions.
George Orwell
#27. It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.
David Bowie
#28. An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Adam Smith
#29. It wasn't that she wanted to seduce him - not literally. But flirting was a pleasure, and flirting with intelligent people - male or female - was one of the supreme pleasures of life.
Brian Morton
#31. 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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#32. The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too ...
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#33. We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!
Leo Robin
#34. I wonder why I keep playing such intelligent people?
John Glover
#35. When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.
George Cukor
#36. 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.
Robert Jarvik
#37. I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.
William Eckhardt
#38. I love Canada ... It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos.
Yann Martel
#39. With intelligent people, three-quarters of the things they suffer from come from their intelligence.
Marcel Proust
#40. Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.
Richard Linklater
#41. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.
Steven Weinberg
#42. Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.
Rufus Jones
#43. How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.
Steven Johnson
#44. Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.
Timothy Ferriss
#45. Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
Karl Albrecht
#46. I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron
#47. Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#48. I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
Adam Brody
#49. Well, suppose intelligent people don't believe, but that's from intelligence, and you, I say, squirt that you are, what do you understand about God? You were taught by some student, and if he'd taught you to light icon lamps, you'd do it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#50. The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.
Paul Collier
#51. Weak people revenge
Strong people forgive
Intelligent people ignore
Anonymous
#52. I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.
Sheila Heti
#53. I'm sure that there are plenty of intelligent people who don't read a lot, but I can't imagine how they stand life without being surrounded by the comfort and knowledge in books.
Hollis Shiloh
#54. Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.
Paulo Coelho
#55. People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#56. It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
Meles Zenawi
#58. 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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#59. I think the people of Victoria are smart, intelligent people.
Denis Napthine
#60. At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary, more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
George Bernard Shaw
#61. Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.
Drew Curtis
#62. The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#63. Spent most of the time talking to the Intelligent people just Incase to Increase your IQ
K.C Tshwaane
#64. Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.
Laozi
#65. I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#66. When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
#67. When a group of intelligent people come together to talk about issues that matter, it is both natural and productive for disagreement to occur. Resolving those issues is what makes a meeting productive, engaging, even fun.
Patrick Lencioni
#68. Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. People want one book to read about the topic and to learn everything, unfortunately I was the same guy, the same person. Who wanted the same, but most stuff and for the most clever and intelligent people is mystery.
Deyth Banger
#70. When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
Ryan Holiday
#71. All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
Action Bronson
#72. The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.
Catherine Lowell
#73. But they would be offering Krishna Consciousness, the highest and rarest gift, and intelligent people would gradually appreciate this, even if at first they scoffed. By
Dinatarini Devi
#74. A fool can read a thousand books and learn nothing.
A wise person can read one and become great. Using books for decoration is what ordinary men do. Using books for knowledge is what intelligent people do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.
Marcel Proust
#76. Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.
Voltaire
#77. Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
Nicolas Chamfort
#78. I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
Maya Angelou
#79. And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.
Sun Tzu
#80. Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.
Alexei Maxim Russell
#81. It was at this time that I formed one of my own insights: it was strange how intelligent people, like Raffles, without being asked, freely spout off their insights and actually expect less intelligent people, like me, to be interested.
Tom Upton
#82. Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
#83. In choosing candidates for this challenging way of life, she emphasised intelligence and good judgment ("GOD PRESERVE US FROM STUPID NUNS !! )
. It was her conviction that intelligent people can better be aware of their faults and, at the same time, see the need to be guided.
St Teresa Of Avila
#84. Your General Patton, he refused to arrest the SS because he said it would be silly to get rid of the most intelligent people in Germany. Instead, he packed the Bavarian Provincial Administration full of Nazis.
Ayelet Waldman
#85. Other, more technically adroit people would soon generate closer approximations of reality. What mattered was (a) it was a rational, testable hypothesis; and (b) James made it so clear and interesting that it provoked a lot of intelligent people to join the conversation. "The
Michael Lewis
#86. You gotta remember the smartest thing the Congress did was to limit the voters in this country. Out of 3 1/2 to 4 million people, 200,000 voted. And that was true for a helluva long time, and the republic would have never survived if all the dummies had voted along with the intelligent people.
Richard Nixon
#87. We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.
Stefan Molyneux
#88. I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.
Terry Pratchett
#89. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward De Bono
#90. They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
Anthony Holden
#91. Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
Robert Kiyosaki
#92. One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.
Claudine Guerin De Tencin
#93. Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.
Charlie Munger
#94. Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
Alan Bennett
#95. Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
Alain De Botton
#96. The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
#97. I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like 'The Newsroom.' I've always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I've gained such a loyal fan base.
Terry Crews
#98. Weak people seek revenge, strong people forgive, and intelligent people ignore. Which one are you?
L.A. Casey
#99. I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it.
Jeffrey Jones
#100. Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.
Nick Rahall
