Quotes About Intelligent Person

#1. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kunti, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Anonymous

#2. There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Tim Heidecker

#3. An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Things are always obvious after the fact. The civil servant was a very intelligent person, and this mistake is much more prevalent than one would think. It has to do with the way our mind handles historical information.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"

Dallas Willard

#6. 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

#7. The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.

Kameron Hurley

#8. It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

Muhammad Ali

#9. Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

Walter Lippmann

#10. The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

Yahoo Serious

#11. An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Jonathan Swift

#12. An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Jaron Lanier

#13. It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Thomas Szasz

#15. When an intelligent person says a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing.

Marty Rubin

#16. There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell

#17. Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature ... He is a holy intelligent person.

John Owen

#18. To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

Alan McGlashan

#19. A wise person explains complex things in simple way. An intelligent person explains simple things in complex way.

Debasish Mridha

#20. If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I've never felt that. And I'll openly say that an intelligent person who is a sensitive person will be and should be in touch with their inner female.

Anthony Warlow

#21. What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

Mario Batali

#23. An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#24. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Marshall McLuhan

#25. I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

James Buchanan

#26. An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Bryant McGill

#27. I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

Halton Arp

#28. If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

E. E. Cummings

#30. Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Yehuda Amichai

#31. The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.

Abu Nuaym

#32. It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#34. An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

Robert Kiyosaki

#35. Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.

Roger B. Taney

#36. Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

Edward St. Aubyn

#37. An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Herbert M. Shelton

#38. No intelligent person, the sophisticated pagan might have explained, actually worshiped images of the gods, or worshiped living emperors; instead, the gods' images - and the images of the emperors themselves - provided an accessible focus for revering the cosmic forces they represented.

Elaine Pagels

#39. I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it. - Colonel Korn

Joseph Heller

#40. An intelligent person positively accepts criticism, repeatedly thinks before giving any statement, and is capable of motivating himself/herself to be successful in the terrible situations in the way of life journey.

Md. Mujib Ullah

#41. And it's a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.

Donna Tartt

#42. Every Intelligent person was once a fool.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#43. In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

Franz Grillparzer

#44. Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Rumi

#45. Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

Marvin J. Ashton

#46. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

Joseph Heller

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

Peter Yarrow

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

Rajneesh

#49. The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky ... Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike.

Rajneesh

#50. Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

Orhan Pamuk

#51. Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

Marc Maron

#52. The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person, - Nero Wolfe

Rex Stout

#53. It's amazing how an otherwise intelligent person can become a credulous fool as soon as you mention the words "organic," "authentic," and "Gweneth Paltrow.

Sophie Kinsella

#54. The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

John Mayer

#55. Everyone was supposed to love Emperor Palpatine. Everyone said he was the bravest, most intelligent person in the galaxy, that he was the one who had brought order after the chaos of the Clone Wars.

Claudia Gray

#56. You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.

Keith Stanfield

#57. An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

Jen Knox

#58. The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#59. A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

Robert Kiyosaki

#60. 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

#61. I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

Iris Apfel

#62. George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war.

David Lange

#63. Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.

Peter Lynch

#64. Becoming a dad means you get transformed from the healthy, vibrant, intelligent, youthful person pictured in your wedding photo into a twitching, bewildered, sleep-deprived, Play-Dough-smeared creature who looks like the guy in the photo on the post office wall, only less chipper.

David Meurer

#65. A paranoiac, my friend, is a person who has gone crazy in the most intelligent, well-informed way, the world being what it is. The paranoiac believes that great secret conspiracies are afoot to destroy him.

Philip K. Dick

#66. Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

Debasish Mridha

#67. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#68. Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.

Jemmy Wiratama

#69. A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

Nicolas Chamfort

#70. 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

#71. My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another.

Sylvia Plath

#72. People see the 'Lil' Wayne' persona and think they know who he really is. My son's father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend. That is all.

Lauren London

#73. The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

Leo Tolstoy

#74. A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

Charles Kettering

#75. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

Ben Carson

#76. For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother.

Doris Lessing

#77. Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

Leland Stanford

#78. what's wrong with a person wanting to be more intelligent, to acquire knowledge, and understand himself and the world?" "If you'd read your Bible, Charlie, you'd know that it's not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by the Lord

Daniel Keyes

#79. Today, we live in a vastly different world. The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#80. The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

Theodor Adorno

#81. The majority of guys that I've met, that I consider confident and sexy, are pretty well rooted in who they are. They know their values and their worth as a person. They know they are intelligent, caring men, and that generates confidence.

Stephanie Beatriz

#82. Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

Oswald Chambers

#83. Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool, and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.

Nancy E. Turner

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

Evangeline Lilly

#85. I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Chevy Chase

#86. Ideally, each week, I'd like to have rad, intelligent, creative, funny guests with different takes on the world of music. I will ask them all what their favorite blink-182 song is, and what they like best about me as a person.

Mark Hoppus

#87. To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

Brian Christian

#88. A fairly young, intelligent-looking man with long hair asked me whether filming or being filmed could do harm, whether it could destroy a person. In my heart the answer was yes, but I said no.

Werner Herzog

#89. Some theists will use this line of defense when questioned about their beliefs: "Person X is very intelligent, and he believes in God. Who am I to say he's wrong?

Armin Navabi

#90. The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.

Daniel Keyes

#91. 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

#92. They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

Ozzy Osbourne

#93. He wasn't an animal. He was the most intelligent, complicated person I'd ever met. He may not be good or virtuous, but he was human, flawed and powerful. And I cried because he needed me too.

Skye Warren

#94. EDUCATION TEACHES US HOW TO THINK, INTELLIGENCE HOW TO QUESTION, AND OUR MORALITY WHAT TO DO WITH WHAT WE KNOW. BE WARY THEN OF THE EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, AND AMORAL PERSON, FOR THEY WILL KNOW ONLY THAT THEY CAN DO A THING, NOT WHETHER THEY SHOULD.

Mark T. Barnes

#95. But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Gautama Buddha

#96. 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

#97. I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Nirmala Srivastava

#98. Twitter Terrorist, billionaire heir, ex-con, computer geek, bad boy - none of those terms came close to describing Kyle Rhodes. He was, simply, a good person, and a confident, intelligent man to boot, and she found that combination absolutely irresistible.

Julie James

#99. The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

Stephen Hawking

#100. When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelligent young person to go into the cooking profession. There have been no waiters who have turned into household names. The service and hospitality aspects have clearly lagged behind the kitchen.

Danny Meyer