Intelligent Quotes

Quotations list about intelligent, intellect and smartest citing Henri Frederic Amiel, Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell

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

    — Henri Frederic Amiel
    477
  • It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

    — Charles Darwin
    376
  • The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

    — Bertrand Russell
    120
  • Intelligent quote Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

    — Henry Ford
    23
  • I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

    — Johannes Kepler
    67
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  • Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    — Ernest Hemingway
    49
  • 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.

    — Albert Einstein
    19
  • Intelligent quote Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarte

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

    — Nikola Tesla
    49
  • A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

    — Arthur Schopenhauer
    17
  • Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

    — George Orwell
    16
  • Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

    — George Orwell
    16
  • Intelligent quote I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

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

    — Cormac McCarthy
    9
  • An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

    — Victor Hugo
    15
  • 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.

    — Edward De Bono
    14
  • The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

    — Marya Mannes
    13
  • Intelligent quote I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving w

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

    — Maya Angelou
    40
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  • Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

    — Isadora Duncan
    12
  • The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

    — George Orwell
    12
  • Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

    — George Orwell
    12
  • Intelligent quote I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'hey, I notice that you'd rather be intel

    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.

    — John Green
    9
  • The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men.

    A woman who is intelligent does not.

    — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    11
  • Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

    — Anonymous
    10
  • 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?

    — George Orwell
    10
  • Intelligent quote Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

    Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

    — Henry Ford
    12
  • I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

    — Frank Sinatra
    9
  • 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
    9
  • You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom.

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

    — Malcolm X
    8
  • There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

    — George Orwell
    8
  • 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.

    — Jim Morrison
    5
  • A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

    — J.B.S. Haldane
    4
  • I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

    — John Jay Chapman
    4
  • There is no method but to be very intelligent.

    — T. S. Eliot
    4
  • This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

    — Isaac Newton
    3
  • 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.

    — Ludwig van Beethoven
    3
  • 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.

    — John Dewey
    3
  • Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

    — Orson Welles
    3
  • The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

    — Bill Watterson
    3
  • I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

    — Christian Bale
    3
  • War is a way of shattering to pieces.

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

    — George Orwell
    3
  • It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.

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

    — G. H. Hardy
    3
  • The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser men so full of doubts.

    — Bertrand Russell
    3
  • An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in their understanding of things.

    — Bryant H. McGill
    3
  • A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

    — Charles Franklin Kettering
    2
  • 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.

    — Truman Capote
    2
  • The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

    — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    2
  • How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

    — Gerhard Kocher
    2
  • He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

    — Ursula K. LeGuin
    2
  • 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.

    — E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumacher
    2
  • Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

    — Philip Roth
    2
  • Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

    — Bill Watterson
    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
    2
  • It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

    — George Bernard Shaw
    2
  • Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

    — John Ruskin
    2
  • We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

    — George Orwell
    2
  • Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

    — Dave Barry
    2
  • 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.

    — E. F. Schumacher
    2

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