Intelligent Quotes

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

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.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

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

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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.

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.