Intelligent Quotes

The expectation of intelligent gossip is a powerful motive for serious self-criticism, more powerful than New Year resolutions to improve one's decision making at work and at home.

Daniel Kahneman

My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.

Max Barry

One thing I can say for sure is that she was very clever. Not in the way others expect you to be – intelligent, witty and concise, but in the way people should be: creative and consistent.

Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Malcolm X

Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Ernst F. Schumacher

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.

Don't be scared to be intelligent. Knowledge is sexy and powerful.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There is a time to speak up, and a time to be silent. A time to read and a time to write. A time to learn and a time to teach. A time to listen and time to be heard. A time to lose and a time to gain. And for all of these things the time in now

Unsure of origin

Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.

Aswin Devarajan

It is not necessary to be an 'Intelligent', It's wise to have the 'Internet

Sumit Kumar Mallik

Advantages never comes free. You have to create it the way you want it!

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence".

Charles Bukowski

The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.

Michael J. Cohen

He was one of those who are not born handsome, but develop charming features with age by continuously engaging their brains with intelligent thoughts.

To be intelligent, be complex; to be wise, be simple.

Debasish Mridha

It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience.

Debasish Mridha

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.

An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I understand that your brain is large and perpetually at war with itself

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.

It is incorrect to assume that you cannot find any good in the point of view directly opposite yours.

Over intellect will make you a genius, over emotions will make you a lunatic.

Take the expansion rate of the universe, which is fine-tuned to one part in a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion. That is, if it were changed by one part in either direction--a little faster, a little slower--we could not have a universe that would be capable of supporting life. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~

If you were smart," Genghis said, "you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.""We never thought of that," Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a guilty flutter in one's stomach, and Klaus felt such a flutter now. "You certainly are an intelligent man.""Not only am I intelligent," Genghis agreed, "but I'm also very smart.

Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

It is a courage which can find the solution to every problem, not the intelligence.

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?

But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them.

Humans are intelligent and resourceful. If we've been around a million or more years, why are we so disinclined to believe that we could have built cities 10,000, 20,000, 50,000 or even more years ago?

Christina Engela

Audiences are craving intricate and intelligent stories that keep them on the edge of their seats.

Jennifer Arnett

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

Life is very simple, but to make ourselves feel intelligent, we insist on making it complex.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

We make our lives complicated to prove that we are very intelligent.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

You cease to be wise or intelligent when your beliefs are false.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

No matter how smart YOU THINK you are or how smart others THINK that you are, you're never going to be somewhere OR someone you're not. _nickc

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Genius is talent set on fire.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If your story is not inspiring you, it’s time to change it.

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Marrying a stupid person is a reflection of your thoughtlessness.Marrying a clever person is a reflection of your intelligence.Marrying a wise person is a reflection of your shrewdness.Marrying a virtuous person is a reflection of your uprightness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students.

Jean-Baptiste Dumas

A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.

Charlotte Eriksson

Every penny that has always been earned with integrity by a person to lead life with a real simplicity has only perhaps helped to serve Almighty & protect and preserve humanity in the society.

Testy McTesterson

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!

Israelmore Ayivor

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Bertrand Russell

Don't overestimate your emotions and underestimate your intelligence.

People in love overvalue their heart and undervalue their mind.

Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Your mind will serve you better than any trinket under the suns...It is a weapon...and like any weapon, you need practice to be any good at wielding it.

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