Intelligent Quotations | Page 2

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

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

I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

I've worked with multiple directors throughout the 'Saw' series with a lot of conversations as they bring their particular installment to the screen. If I've been able to do anything throughout the course of these films, it's been to help shape dialogue and to try to make things as delicate and as intelligent as I can.

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

Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didnt do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world.

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

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

Although it's easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket... it's part-ownership of a business.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

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.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

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.

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

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe.

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

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?

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Perhaps we've never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there's no sign of intelligent life.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

When you play against dirty players or very tough players, it's easy to escape because you know what they're going to do. But when the player is tough but intelligent, it's much more difficult.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.

I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really have an opinion about the worth of making art.