Very Short Intelligent Quotes

#1. I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

Paula Radcliffe

#2. True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Ralph W. Sockman

#3. If someone throws a pie at your face, just open your mouth really wide and say, 'Thanks for feeding me, a**hole.'

Demetri Martin

#4. Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.

"I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.

Jeff Hobbs

#5. Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.

Paul Brunton

#6. In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.

Benjamin Graham

#7. She was old enough to be stately, yet young enough to be known for her remarkable beauty. In short, she was the type of woman Sarene would normally hate - if she weren't also the kindest, most intelligent woman in the court. After

Brandon Sanderson

#8. When the storm comes,
the short-sighted get soaked,
the intelligent run for cover,
and the prudent pull out their umbrellas.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Marcus Aurelius

#10. Was it possible that I - short, too full-figured, wearing glasses, I diligent but not intelligent, I who pretended to be cultured, informed, when I wasn't - could have believed that he would like me even just for the length of a vacation?

Elena Ferrante

#11. What to do when the market goes down? Read the opinions of the investment gurus who are quoted in the WSJ. And, as you read, laugh. We all know that the pundits can't predict short-term market movements. Yet there they are, desperately trying to sound intelligent when they really haven't got a clue.

Jonathan Clements

#12. I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

Gary Coleman

#13. I met a 13-year-old black child, Raymond, who had never been to school and had never learnt any words, yet it seemed to me that he was intelligent. It became apparent after a short period that Raymond thought in terms of visual signs and movements.

Robert Wilson

#14. National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Short, dark hair and strong shoulders. He had a handsome, intelligent

James Patterson

#16. Nothing is so rare as a collection of really intelligent short stories.

Morley, Christopher

#17. And a real, undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if only for a short time; moreover, real and true grief has sometimes even made fools more intelligent, also only for a time, of course; grief has this property.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like,"Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight

J. Keller Ford

#19. English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

Cyril Connolly