Top 100 The Most Intelligent Sayings

#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. 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

#3. The most important thing about priorities and posteriorities is not intelligent analysis but courage.

Peter F. Drucker

#4. The most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.

Irving Kristol

#5. 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

#6. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The

Napoleon Hill

#7. Thus he became one with a life in its pure state, he rediscovered a paradise given only to the most private or the most intelligent animals. At the point where the mind denies the mind, he touched his truth and with it his extreme glory, his extreme love.

Albert Camus

#8. If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.

Gisela Hausmann

#9. Humans, the most intelligent, gregarious(in biology), productive creatures on this planet but also the most selfish, destructive, heartless, insincere, insatiable creatures.

Myself

#10. Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it begins to simply reward those who reproduce the most and leave the intelligent to become an endangered species.

Mike Judge

#11. This game is a hell we've all been damned into. It's designed to madden us. The most intelligent Arcana ever to play is called the Fool. The one who least wanted to kill was named Death. And you, Empress, rule over nothing!

Kresley Cole

#12. The thingy? You want me, the most intelligent cognitive processor in the known worlds, to say thingy?"
"Yes," I reaffirmed. "That is correct."
Do you stay up nights thinking of ways to humiliate me?" HARV asked.

John Zakour

#13. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Isaac Newton

#14. Creepers are amazing! They're the most intelligent, beautiful creatures in the world ever. I'm

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#15. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

Criss Jami

#16. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

Alan Watts

#17. The most important part of living life on your own terms and having it all is having faith and belief in yourself and in the intelligent power that created you.

John Assaraf

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

Barry Lopez

#21. For if we do not know even how we manage to be conscious and intelligent, it is most rash to assume that we know what the role of conscious intelligence will be, and still more that it is competent to order the world.

Alan W. Watts

#22. God is better than the best,more intelligent than the most intelligent,more powerful than the most powerful and bigger than the biggest.

Osunsakin Adewale

#23. Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that I've met. He's really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.

Valerie Cruz

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

Debasish Mridha

#25. Often-times the most difficult competition comes, not from the strong, the intelligent, the conservative competitor, but from the man who is holding on by the eyelids and is ignorant of his costs, and anyway he's got to keep running or bust!

John D. Rockefeller

#26. Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

William, Saroyan

#27. Her remark would have commanded greater attention had it been generally realized that human beings were only the third most intelligent life form present on the planet Earth,

Douglas Adams

#28. To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

C.N. Bovee

#29. 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

#30. BDS is perhaps the most ambitious, empowering, and promising Palestinian-led global movement for justice and rights. BDS has the capacity to challenge Israel's colonial rule and apartheid in a morally consistent, effective, and, crucially, intelligent manner.

Omar Barghouti

#31. This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

Benito Mussolini

#32. 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

#33. She has told me that what she found most destructive about minority-group psychology "is that one comes to share the conviction of the majority: that one is less able, less intelligent, less educable, less worthy of responsibility." My sentiments, exactly.

Katharine Graham

#34. The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.

W. Somerset Maugham

#35. The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but 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

#36. Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.

Jane Goodall

#37. People just assume, over the years, that soccer players are not too intelligent. As with most assumptions, they're wrong.

David Beckham

#38. Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Raheel Farooq

#39. The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings; so are the most stupid

Agona Apell

#40. Intelligent decisions reward you much.
Wise decisions reward you the most.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#41. The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

James E. Lovelock

#42. 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

#43. Fear itself is quite fear-inducing. Most intelligent people in the world dress it up as something else: optimistic denial.

Timothy Ferriss

#44. Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Terry Pratchett

#45. 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

#46. And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas have come from intelligent playfulness. All the sober, thin-lipped concentration is really just a matter of tidying up around the fringes of the big ideas.

Kurt Vonnegut

#47. Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Aldous Huxley

#48. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together.
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

Max Planck

#49. The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

Benjamin Graham

#50. Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Jonathan Edwards

#51. The rules of the betting are intelligent: recent events and the current context have the most weight in determining an interpretation. When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.

Daniel Kahneman

#52. The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life. Thus, the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products.

Guy Kawasaki

#53. War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

Pearl S. Buck

#54. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin

Aleatha Romig

#55. Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

Edsger Dijkstra

#56. Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#57. The happiest times in our lives are times when we are thinking the most motivating, intelligent and productive thoughts.

Nicki Joy

#58. I might not be the most intelligent one amongst my peers but with the little knowledge I acquired over the years, I was able to give back to the society that has made me the man I have become today".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#59. Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

Pep Guardiola

#60. Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

Jill Scott

#61. Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#62. If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He'll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend.

Frederick Lenz

#63. 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

#64. H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.

L. Frank Baum

#65. If we have learned anything, we have learned this: it is not the strongest of the races that survives, or the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Thus only the Aeduan race will survive the

Jeff Wheeler

#66. The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

Christopher Hitchens

#67. Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence ... Learning to walk is especially significant, not only because it is supremely complex, but because it is done in the first year of life.

Maria Montessori

#68. Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

Philip Greenspun

#69. Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Alan W. Watts

#70. Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".

Jon Stewart

#71. 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

#72. Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#73. Thus, the photons which constitute a ray of light behave like intelligent human beings: out of all possible curves they always select the one which will take them most quickly to their goal.

Max Planck

#74. Spent most of the time talking to the Intelligent people just Incase to Increase your IQ

K.C Tshwaane

#75. Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

Anthony LaPaglia

#76. [My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

Harold Urey

#77. If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

Jaden Smith

#78. I read The NAMBLA Bulletin fairly regularly and I think it is one of the most intelligent discussions of sexuality I've ever found ... I would have been so much happier as an adolescent if NAMBLA had been around when I was 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Samuel R. Delany

#79. The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#80. Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Diane Ravitch

#81. Woah' That's about the most intelligent thing I can say right now.

Susan Ee

#82. 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

#83. Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women ... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.

Amanda Tapping

#84. 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

#85. Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

Michael Shermer

#86. The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

Steve Pavlina

#87. It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

June Allyson

#88. Women have been the most intelligent, peaceful and positive influences in my life, I don't want to generalize too much, but definitely in my experience, I've found the whole macho world of male aggression and insecurity to be a lot more difficult to exist in.

Zayn Malik

#89. I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.

Robert Carlyle

#90. The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#91. Will we no longer be the most intelligent being on earth,

Michio Kaku

#92. The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

Patrick Collison

#93. 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

#94. I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

Don Van Vliet

#95. Knowledge, concentrated into wisdom, is the end of existence. To those who live according to God's law, knowledge will come easily. It will continue to come to his people, until it shall be the most intelligent among the nations. The Lord has said it. "How

John A. Widtsoe

#96. 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

#97. Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

#98. The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent non aggressiveness.

Laozi

#99. There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a perverse bitch. And then there's the one who is currently residing in my house."
"And what is she like?"
"Intelligent... sweet... gentle. Most men's fantasy.

Lisa Kleypas

#100. Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.

Baron De Montesquieu

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