Intelligent Quotes

• Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

  Laozi

  People, Taoism, Enlightened

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• If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?

  John Lydon

  Dolphins, Fishes, Ifs

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• Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Effort, Criticism, Progress

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• Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Parent, Should

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• If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Speak English

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The most intelligent thing we can do is love, not reason.

  Barry Lopez

  Love, Reason, Can Do

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• It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.

  Louis Eliot

  Education, Teaching, Educated

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• We are the products of a highly intelligent and creative supreme being.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Creative, Supreme

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• Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

  Albert Einstein

  Earth, Planets, Intelligent Life

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• I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

  Kate Beaton

  Horse, Comic, Made

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• John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

  Hank Green

  Wise, Men, Smell

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 27, 2013.

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• Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.

  Richard Koch

  Ambition, Progress, Laziness

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• Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

  Mu Xin

  Library, Firsts, Fine

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• I consider the Chinese government's policy among the most intelligent in the world.

  Gary Bauer

  Government, Feminist, Chinese

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• No breeder is above catering to intelligent praise of his dog.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Praise, Breeders

  Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “The Heart of a Dog - Illustrated”, p.111, Read Books Ltd

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• The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

  Steve Pavlina

  Life Is, Grows

  Steve Pavlina (2010). “Personal Development for Smart People”, p.159, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  Gail Porter

  Thinking

  "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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• A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Team, Persons, Intelligent Person

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2013

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• Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive

  Mary Pipher

  Self, Alive, Resistance

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.37, Penguin

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• Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

  Margaret Thatcher

  People, Giving, Credit

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• Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Fantasy

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• I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

  Shelley Winters

  Girl, Independent, Men

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• Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Intelligence, Existence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The more intelligent, the less sane

  George Orwell

  Sane, Ignorance In 1984

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• We do not judge, we believe that we are all beautiful intelligent expressions of GOD here on this planet.

  K. D. Aubert

  Beautiful, Believe, Expression

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

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