Intelligent Quotes

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.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

Stupid, Doubt, Trouble

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.
Jim Morrison

Important, Human, Soul

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Drunk, Sometimes

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.
Charles Darwin

Change, Nor, Strongest

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway

Happiness, Rarest

A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Catherine Deneuve

Humor, Woman, Same

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

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

Important, Human, Soul

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

Thought, Thoughts, Try

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

Women, Contest, Staring

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

Person, Truly, Statistics

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

Life, Universe, Tried

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.
Max Planck

Mind, Matter, Behind

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

Men, Duty, Obvious

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.
David Bowie

After, Sometimes, Situation

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.
George S. Patton

Men, Fear, Brave

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Work, Yourself, Him

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

Person, Find, Afraid

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo

Stupid, Hell, Paradise

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

Best, Nothing, Situation

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything, Almost, Sensible

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.
Truman Capote

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nothing, Done, Silly

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

Before, After, Generation

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Good, Women, Pretty

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer

Effort, Result, Accident

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?
George Orwell

Yourself, Against, Fair

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

Person, Wrong, Ideas

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

Love, Stupid, Woman

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