Welcome to the world of Intelligent Quotes! Here, we delve into the wisdom, wit, and thought-provoking insights of some of the greatest minds in history. From philosophers and scientists to writers and leaders, these quotes encompass a wide range of topics and offer valuable nuggets of wisdom. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, motivation, or simply looking for eloquent words to enhance your creations, you’ve come to the right place.
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Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Marcel Proust
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. George Orwell
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily – you can write that down. Sam Neill
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. Kenneth Grahame
I’m not much for cats. I’m terrified of mice. I’ve worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp. Mary Ellen Mark
Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love. Honore de Balzac
The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods. John Maynard Keynes
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
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire. Leland Stanford
It is every intelligent man’s experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later. Ramana Maharshi
They say military have the so-called ‘secret intelligence’ – this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I’ve never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars. Ozzy Osbourne
I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent – a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident – that is very sexy – but at the same time, he’s very kind to people. Nicole Scherzinger
I had terrible ear problems and asthma and allergies. I spent quite a bit of time in hospital up to the age of eight so was not – am still not – extraordinarily intelligent. Tim Minchin
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you’re obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant. Chris Martin
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
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. Johannes Kepler
No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters. Muhammad Ali
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it. Arthur C. Clarke
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. Socrates
It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. G. H. Hardy
The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. Fidel Castro
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind. Sylvia Plath
There is no method but to be very intelligent. T. S. Eliot
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
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. Dave Barry
Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air. Pele
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. Bryant H. McGill
Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Edward de Bono
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. Paul J. Meyer
The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. Neal Stephenson
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. Ernest Hemingway
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be. Ralph W. Sockman
This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated. Robert Jarvik
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would rather be stupid than pretend to be intelligent. Mahesh Bhatt
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. Jonathan Edwards
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself. Alfred Lord Tennyson
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. Alan Turing
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable. Cormac McCarthy
The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, ‘What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?’ Yuval Noah Harari
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word ‘dude.’ ‘Dude, these are isotopes.’ ‘Dude, we removed your kidney. You’re gonna be fine.’ ‘Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.’ Demetri Martin
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
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
For some reason, we’re brainwashed to think if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. Charles Barkley
Successful leaders surround themselves with intelligent people. Richard Ojeda
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson
How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? Kinky Friedman
I believe there’s other forms of intelligence in the universe. I’ve seen and heard some pretty convincing UFO stuff. Besides, if we’re the most intelligent things in the universe… well, that’s just depressing. Rekha Sharma
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
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. Marya Mannes
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? Montesquieu
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Fernando Pessoa
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. Paul R. Ehrlich
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
People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent. Cecily Strong
Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent. Shah Rukh Khan
We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end. Ezra Taft Benson
A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. Charles Kettering
I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth. Stephen Hawking
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. Shakti Gawain
The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. Ernest Holmes
Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. Orison Swett Marden
Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. Orson Pratt
I married up. He’s an intelligent and kind soul. Matt Bomer
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. Michael Morpurgo
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens. Hiram Rhodes Revels
Perhaps we’ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon Earth and decided there’s no sign of intelligent life. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image. Jaggi Vasudev
John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent. Brenda Lee
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. Nikola Tesla
It’s remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. Charlie Munger
When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it’s easy. Nawal El Saadawi
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Marshall McLuhan
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. Simone Weil
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. Isaac Newton
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we’re as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned. Octavia E. Butler
Working with intelligent people is easy, but we should be careful with geniuses. Rajinikanth
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. John Ruskin
The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. Jose Mourinho
Donald Trump is a symptom, not a disease. The disease is the death of real political conservatism: a cool, intelligent reluctance to believe that all change is good, a love for the established, the particular, and the well-worn. Peter Hitchens
Researching ‘Lone Wolf,’ I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn’t provoked by the human. Jodi Picoult
Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there. Orson Welles
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. E. F. Schumacher
I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random. Steve Jobs
I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It’s different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time – or at least most of the time. Richard Bausch
The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate. Jens Martin Skibsted
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people – men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach. Magnus Carlsen
Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population. Roger B. Taney
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
Carlos Valderrama was the one I admired most, really. At the time, he was a top player, and I had a lot of admiration for him. I met him once, and he’s a great person, someone who provided the country with a lot of joy. He was a very intelligent footballer who could create something out of nothing as well as score goals. James Rodriguez
No, I wasn’t a bad kid. I was always intelligent, and strong-minded, and outgoing, like I am now. DaBaby
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. Franz Boas
Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly. Diogenes
The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation. Joan Baez
I don’t have a type. I am more of a sapiosexual person. The girl has to be intelligent. Siddharth Shukla
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. George Bernard Shaw
