Intelligent Quotes - Page 13

• ‎We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way.

  Jerry Brown

  Needs, Way, Unreasonable

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• We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics.

  Stratford Caldecott

  Wings, Progress, Might

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• This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.

  Isaac Newton

  Beautiful, Wise, Stars

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)”, p.1023, Delphi Classics

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Men, Tree

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.34, Advaita Ashrama

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• Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a faith-based initiative in rhetorical argument. Should we teach I.D. in America's public schools? Yes, let's do - not as science, but alongside other spiritual beliefs, such as Islam, Zoroastrianism and the Hindu Idea that Earth rests on Chukwa, the giant turtle.

  David Quammen

  Spiritual, School, Ideas

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• The intelligent man is never bored.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Bored, Intelligent Man

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• Praise the beautiful for their intelligence and the intelligent for their beauty.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Beautiful, Praise

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• Intelligent women always marry fools

  Anatole France

  Fool, Intelligent Women

  Anatole France (2007). “The Red Lily”, p.42, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid.

  Don Van Vliet

  Stupid, Men, Thinking

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• The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

  Stephen Hawking

  Race, Doe, Records

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• ...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.

  Stephen Fry

  Reality, Use, Speech

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• Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

  William S. Burroughs

  Successful, Men, Evil

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Men, Fields

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• Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Attitude, Numbers

  "The Blind Watchmaker". Book by Richard Dawkins, 1986.

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• It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington!

  William Proxmire

  Hard, Intelligent Life

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• Simple rules guide innovative, intelligent responses. Comprehensive rules guide rote, routine responses.

  Jim Highsmith

  Simple, Routine, Guides

  Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Leadership: Accelerating Enterprise Agility”, p.53, Addison-Wesley

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• Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head. It must have been like that with you and Snowden. But what if he'd been a graying guy with the same documents and far less intelligent things to say about them? In other words, how exactly did who he was make your movie and remake our world?

  Laura Poitras

  Dream, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

  Douglas Adams

  Country, Boys, Years

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• Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Thinking, Sky

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• Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Independent, Extroverts, Arrogant

  "Caring for Your Introvert". www.theatlantic.com. March, 2003.

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• A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10 times as entertaining as the same amount of 'calculus for engineers'.

  G. H. Hardy

  Months, Instruction, Theory

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• In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.

  Stewart Lee

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle/ Religion". Comedy, April 2009.

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• Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

  Marc Maron

  Ironic, United States, Irony

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• Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

  Joseph Beuys

  Ifs

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• Vitali Klitschko doesn't get enough credit for how intelligent he fights, because he knows when to throw at the target and when to throw through the target.

  Larry Merchant

  Fighting, Target, Credit

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