Intelligent Quotes

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

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

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people.

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

I'm mourning with the rest of the world for the talented, gorgeous, funny, intelligent John Forsythe but my heart is broken for the loss of my dear, dear friend and neighbor. I will miss him terribly.

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.

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

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

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

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

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?

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

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

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

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.