Best Intelligent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.”

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Author:Elinor Lipman

“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”

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Author:Adam Levine

“I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“I was sitting in the classroom trying to look intelligent in case the teacher looked at me.”

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Author:Elton John

“Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.”

“There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.”

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Author:John Fowles

“John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.”

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Author:Brenda Lee

“You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.”

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Author:Bernard Pivot

“I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.”

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Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.”

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Author:Portia de Rossi

“My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.”

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Author:Kid Koala

“The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?”

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Book:All Too Human: A Political Education

Source: All Too Human: A Political Education

“Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.”

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Author:L. Neil Smith

“Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“We live in the dark ages. If an intelligent society can destroy itself in large numbers and places the largest amount of revenues in instruments of destruction, it is certainly not an evolved society or an intelligent society.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Happiness has to do with how quickly you vibrate, how intelligent you are, how subtle your awareness field is, how deep you are, how aware of your eternal part you are.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.”

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Author:J.K. Simmons

“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.”

“If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.”

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Author:Amber Valletta

“I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.”

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Author:George Weah

“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“We are luminous beings. Beneath our transient physical bodies we are made of intelligent light.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“As you evolve and develop your psychic abilities, you will enter into perceptions of life, truth, beauty and you will gain a power to live your life in an intelligent, perceptive and strong way.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.”

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Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”

“I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.”

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Author:Max Landis

“Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.”

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Author:Richard Linklater

“When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.”

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Author:Vernor Vinge

“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

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Author:Meles Zenawi

“The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.”

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Author:Garry Winogrand

“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.”

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Author:Francis Collins

“Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'”

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Author:Jeremy Grantham

“Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.”

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Book:Montessori's Own Handbook

Source: Montessori's Own Handbook

“I like going to museums and stuff, but I also like going out and doing lots of physical activity like camping and hiking. I like doing stuff that I've never done before. Curiosity is a big thing. Usually it means that people are intelligent and that they want to learn stuff about the world.”

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Author:Nicholas D'Agosto

“Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.”

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Author:Omari Hardwick

“The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.”

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Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?”

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Book:You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics

Source: You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics

“When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.”

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Author:Ted Kotcheff

“The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.”

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Author:Dale Rex Coman

“As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.”

Men Said Fighting Lost Intelligent Ass Kicks Self Defense Intelligent Man

Book:Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence

Source: Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence

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