Intelligent Quotes - Page 18

• Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm as intelligent as ever.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mind, Sometimes, Wonder

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case, get it out of the science classroom and send it back to church, where it belongs.

  Richard Dawkins

  Feet, Discipline, Church

  "One side can be wrong" by Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, www.theguardian.com. September 01, 2005.

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• We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

  Jon Jones

  Religious, Design, Creationist

  "Judge rules against 'intelligent design' in science class" by Delia Gallagher, Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2005.

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• If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.

  Tom Peters

  Silly, Done, Ifs

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• Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

  Solomon

  Wise, Strong, Men

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• Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a genre that seeks to break free of parochialism and think about where and why and what we are without the language of religion... I loved Sunshine for its radical proposal that humans can and will do something about a catastrophe, and that our weapons could be used up in the service of preservation.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Sunshine, Thinking, Fiction

  "Sunshine" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2007.

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• It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

  David Jeremiah

  Christian, Knowing, Church

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• No political party is justified to continue in existence unless it clearly states the principles which it advocates, the platform upon which its candidates stand, and then with integrity, when and if elected, carry out those principles and live up to that platform. Except that be the case, we as Latter-day Saints should not align ourselves to any party, because we do not have the basis upon which we can make an intelligent decision. We must know what they stand for before we can favor them with our vote.

  Henry D. Moyle

  Integrity, Party, Decision

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• Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Men, Silence

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.248, Vintage

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• We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'

  Charlie Munger

  Guy, Looks, Slugs

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

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• I really love Charlize Theron. I've never met her before, but she seems really down-to-earth in interviews, really intelligent and funny and cool - and she's just this glorious goddess who holds herself with such confidence.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Earth, Interviews, Goddess

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• When I stand on my special-issue "Intelligent Investor" ladder and peer out over the frenzied crowd, I see very few others doing the same. Many stocks remain overvalued, and speculative excess - both on the upside and on the downside - is embedded in the frenzy around stocks of all stripes. And yes, I am talking about March 2001, not March 2000.

  Michael Burry

  Talking, Issues, Stripes

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• The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification. Because I just think the whole concept is literally almost insane. It emphasizes feeling good about not having your investment results depart very much from average investment results. But why would you get on the bandwagon like that if somebody didn't make you with a whip and a gun?

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Gun, Ideas

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• The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Errors, Self, Creative

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• But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Kings, Elephants

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• Not only do I think that he is highly intelligent but also outstandingly educated. ... He is extremely beautiful, fragile and totally unearthly. I always had the feeling that he is not standing on the floor but slightly floating on air. Michael Jackson knows that he appears like that on others and he also knows how to employ it.

  Gottfried Helnwein

  Beautiful, Thinking, Air

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• Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

  Peter Bradshaw

  School, Oxford, Rocks

  "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

  Terence McKenna

  Safe, Life Is, Responsible

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• Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?

  Beyonce Knowles

  Sexy, Love Is, Labels

  "Mrs Carter Uncut". Interview with Jo Ellison, www.vogue.co.uk. April 4, 2013.

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• It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.

  Charlie Munger

  Gdp, Civilization, People

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• I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really.

  Rebel Wilson

  People, Looking Good, Public Service

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• To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity.

  Brian Christian

  Views, People, Identity

  "The Most Human Human: What Artificial Intelligence Teaches Us About Being Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2011.

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• There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Slaughterhouse 5, Slaughterhouses

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.3, Infobase Publishing

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• I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

  Warren Beatty

  Stupid, Tides, Young

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

  Terence McKenna

  Knowing, Historical, Generations

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