Quotes and Sayings About Intelligent
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As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
-- Abu Nu`aym -
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
-- Adam Brody -
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.
-- Adam Kirsch -
As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.
-- Adam Levine -
I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.
-- Adam Levine -
And now, advice for beginning mystics. Be sober, be intelligent, be educated, rely on the tangible reality as long as you can. Remember that the act of writing is a tiny part of a bigger something. Defend the value of the spiritual experience and if somebody tells you it's an old fashioned notion, laugh loudly and serenely.
-- Adam Zagajewski -
Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.
-- Adela Popescu -
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
-- Adolf Hitler -
A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it as early if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interest involved; to make of the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion.
-- Adolph Ochs -
Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
-- Aeschylus -
The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler (or crook) of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent eveil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon ("phénomène", Fr.) than an unfortune illiterate fellow having commited an offence.
-- African Spir -
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
-- Akio Morita -
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
-- Al-Maʿarri -
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.
-- Ala Bashir -
We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
-- Alain de Botton -
Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.
-- Alain de Botton -
Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.
-- Alain de Botton -
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
-- Alain de Botton -
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
-- Alan Bennett -
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
-- Alan Kay -
To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.
-- Alan McGlashan -
In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,†Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.
-- Alan Turing -
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
-- Alan Turing -
Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
-- Alan Watts -
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
-- Alan Watts -
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest†of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.
-- Alan Watts -
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
-- Alben W. Barkley -
Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.
-- Albert Camus
