A Quotes
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“An intelligent child is better than a foolish adult.”
“An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.”
“An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.”
Source: The God Delusion
“An intelligent enemy,' he would say, stroking his beard as if it were a bristly pet, 'rather than a foolish friend.' Or, 'He learnt the language of pigeons, and forgot his own.' Or, the favourite of Jan Fishan Khan: 'Nothing is what it seems.”
Source: Sorcerer's Apprentice
“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell."
(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)”
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
“An intelligent investor gets satisfaction from the thought that his operations are exactly opposite to those of the crowd.”
“An intelligent investor sees an opportunity in dip than risk.”
“An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.”
Source: My Pleasure
“An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.”
“An intelligent man is one who is capable of taking in knowledge until the natural limits of the species are reached.. A stupid man is one whose progress is arrested at some specific time and place before then. There thus appears in psychology - and the next instant in politics - the concept of the unteachable. Some men can learn almost indefinitely; their capacity goes on increasing until their bodies begin to wear out. Others stop in childhood, even in infancy. They reach, say , the mental age of ten or twelve, and then they develop no more. Physically, they become men, and sprout beards, political delusions, and the desire to propagate their kind. But mentally they remain on the level of schoolboys.”
Source: Notes On Democracy
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.”
“An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.”
“An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.”
“An intelligent man wants to ultimately spend his life with a woman with whom he knows he shares complimentary energies with. He wants to feel like him and his woman are solid, because nothing can throw them off base, because the flow of their connection is just so grounded, that nothing can come in between that— not reason, not logic, not lies, not insecurities, not doubts and not fears. Men don't talk about this, but this is what intelligent men innately crave, and they don't want anything less. They want something solid. They don't want to be with women who want to be with guys who don't respect them or who try to make them jealous all the time; they don't want to be with women who need to feel like there's a game that's being played. So, contrary to popular belief, men do want something real, even more real than what many women dream of! And it's not about other people and what they think is real; it's about just him and her and what they know is real. But you can never fake making a man believe this is the kind of connection that you have with him, because you can't fake energies! At the end of the day, if you're that woman, then you're that woman and he's that man for you. Your connection through your energies will just flow through everything— walls, distance, time, fears— you'll be solid.”
“An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make it so full of love and full of music and full of poetry and full of dance that there are no limitations for it. Life is not hard. It is man's stupidity that makes it hard.”
“An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“An intelligent mind who trust nothing but the intelligence will eventually face problems which intelligence won't solve.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.”
Source: Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk
“An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.”
“An intelligent person can rationalize anything; a wise person doesn't try.”
Source: Chaos Magic
“An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.”
“An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.”
“An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.”
“An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.”
“An intelligent person looks for problems to solve. The wise person looks for solutions.”
“An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.”
“An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart”
“An intelligent person will throw a foolish idea to the team to see if it makes sense. A foolish person will insist that his idea is the best and should be accepted.”
Source: Quantraz
“An intelligent person will withdraw once the argument starts in any conversation, while a fool will persist till he wins the argument.”
Source: Quantraz
“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“An intelligent slave is better than a foolish slave master.”
“An intelligent sociopath can learn the rules about what's good and what's bad, what people see as good and bad. But they don't get that intervening sense of guilt, that pang of conscience, on account of it. So they tend to know what's wrong or right, they just don't care. That's another thing that they can use against us: that we do care. We're predictable in that.”
“An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.”
“An intelligent wolf is better than a foolish lion.”
“An intelligent wolf is better than a senseless lion.”
“An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.”
Source: Aphorisms
“An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.”
“An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.”
“An intelligent woman’s gratitude is a thing very much worth having…”
Source: Palace Intrigue
“An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.”
“An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.”
Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor.”
“An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.”
“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.”
Source: Self-help
“An intense cold swept over them all. Harry felt his own breath catch in his chest. The cold went deeper than his skin. It was inside his chest, it was inside his very heart. . . .
Harry’s eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn’t see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder . . .
And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. He wanted to help whoever it was, he tried to move his arms, but couldn’t . . . a thick white fog was swirling around him, inside him —”
Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.”
Source: Moby-Dick
“An intense desire for sex is a common response to trauma. The shrinks even coined a term for it - 'terror sex.”
Source: Sharp Shootin' Cowboy