Intelligent Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.

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.

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

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

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

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 went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

They are the most fascinating, intelligent, resourceful, adaptable animals I have ever seen. Grizzlies are a real symbol of true wildness.

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.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

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.

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.