Intelligent Quotes - Page 13

• I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Men, Two, People

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• Pigs are very intelligent. They're very misunderstood. Yet they're sort of man's unofficial best friend.

  Herbert

  Men, Pigs, Misunderstood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The followers of intelligent design should openly and clearly declare the existence of Allah as the Creator.

  Harun Yahya

  Design, Followers, Should

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.

  Patrick Gaubert

  White, Black, Minorities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  Barry Ritholtz

  News, Use, Littles

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• One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Two, Mind

  "The World of George Orwell" edited by Miriam Gross, (p. 167), 1972.

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• Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It
  has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Children, Abortion, Desire

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

  Gordon Cooper

  Order, Our World, Government

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• Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

  Dale Carnegie

  Decision, United States, Firsts

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.45, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

  Peter Zumthor

  People, Together, Use

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• I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Thinking, Play

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Voice, Encounters, Compelling

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• America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

  Cesar Millan

  America, More Money

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

  James Lileks

  Believe, Design, Desire

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Thinking, Order

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• I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.

  Paul Robeson

  Spiritual, Sorry, Pride

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Boss, Trying, Nails

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.

  Steve Coogan

  War, People, Matter

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

  Rhys Bowen

  Witty, Fun, Character

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• True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Modest, True Intelligence

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• 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.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mistake, Tired, Men

  "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 116-117), 1962.

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• Absolutists frighten me. During all the endless discussions on my blog about evolution, intelligent design, God, and the afterworld, numbering altogether thousands of comments, I have never named my beliefs, although readers have freely informed me that I am an atheist, and agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist - which I am.

  Roger Ebert

  Atheist, Design, Belief

  "Life Itself : A Memoir". Book by Roger Ebert, 2011.

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• I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Fog, Sea, People

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “The Horla (Horror Classic): From one of the greatest French writers, widely regarded as the ‘Father of Modern Short Story’ writing, known for The Necklace, Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi, Bel-Ami, The Piece of String, A Life…”, p.13, e-artnow

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• To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Past, Perception, Important

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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