Intelligent Quotes

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

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein

"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane."
-George Orwell

"Every 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

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

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

"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."
-John Dewey

"There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction."
-John Dewey

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
-Charles Darwin

"The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants."
-Clifford Stoll

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

"The element of time-travel is handled far more intelligent in Harry Potter."
-David Thewlis

"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."
-Simone Weil

"I think intelligent design should not be taught in the biology classroom."
-Michael Ruse

"Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor."
-Lazarus Long

"Has that shtick about being a dumb country boy, but he's mentally tough and intelligent."
-Travis Hafner

"We were doing it (adding intelligent design to the curriculum) for the students to give them an alternative scientific theory to go along with their biology class, ... We thought we were doing something good for them."
-William Buckingham

"A frail elder without the family caregiver won't make it, but if you don't have a sense of who that family caregiver is you don't know what is needed. Assessment is an intelligent step."
-Cynthia Epstein

"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

"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."
-Leopold Stein

"He is extremely intelligent and when you combine that with fairness, you get a great leader."
-David Waller

"People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent."
-Gillian Anderson

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

"Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them."
-Peter Ustinov

"It really starts to extend what we call the intelligent information network."
-Charles Giancarlo

"Is there intelligent life on earth? Yes, but I'm only visiting."
-Graffiti

"He's one of our best athletes on the field, and he's also very intelligent."
-Dave Bunton

"He knows Hillel as well as anyone coming in, certainly better than the other candidates. He's familiar with the system, he's committed, intelligent, he's attractive and he's got great motivation to do the job."
-Michael Steinhardt