Intelligent Quotes

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.

If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers.

Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men.

A woman who is intelligent does not.

I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful that vapid, that you believe that there are thing that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

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.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom.

All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

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

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us.

But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

War is a way of shattering to pieces.

.. materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.

By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.

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

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

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue.

That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.

It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

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.

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

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex.

.. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.