Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

William Shakespeare

I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Bill Gates

There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Edgar Degas

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Susan B. Anthony

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Jane Addams

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Jane Addams

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

Chris Christie

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation,

Antoine Predock

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Brian Tracy

Intellectual capital is the most valuable of all factors of production.

Dave Barry

It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.

Edward Abbey

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Ben Horowitz

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

Dominique de Villepin

Accusations are useless.

Warda Tahir

When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop.

Jose Mujica

I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.

Louis C. K.

You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

Charles Bukowski

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Alan Coren

The word "souvenir" has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless; but even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.