Intelligent Quotes

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

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

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

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

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

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

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question.

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.

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

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