Intelligent Quotes - Page 16

• The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

  John Mayer

  Leadership, Understanding, Four

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• The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

  Ben Folds

  Monsters, Groups, Individual

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• We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e.g., out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.

  Paul Goodman

  Pain, Blessing, Punishment

  "Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 71-72), 1956.

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• What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason.

  Voltaire

  Believe, Mind, Matter

  Voltaire, John G. Gorton (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.155

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• You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'

  Oliviero Toscani

  Wife, Answers, Polite

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

  Graham Greene

  Simple, Worst Enemy, Simplicity

  Graham Greene (1983). “The Human Factor”, Viking Press

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• An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.

  Adam Smith

  Stupid, People, Ignorant

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• God is not good, or wise, or intelligent anyway that we know. So, people like Maimonides in the Jewish tradition, Eboncina in the Muslim tradition, Thomas Aquinas in the Christian tradition, insisted that we couldn't even say that God existed because our concept of existence is far too limited and they would have been horrified by the ease with which we talk about God today.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Wise, Jewish Tradition

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze." And neither of these two "virtues" is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.

  Francesco Clemente

  Artist, Two, Want

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• A favorite science fiction writer of mine is William Faulkner! It was an idea that came to me once, years ago, and I've never quite been able to shake it. This is facetious, on one level at least. There are telepaths in As I Lay Dying. But I think the most compelling thing for me is there are moments with him where I just feel these are not humans talking to each other. These are some hyper-intelligent, yet-to-be-born organisms. The way they look at the past without having any loss of knowledge – everything that ever happened is still here.

  Robert Reed

  Loss, Thinking, Past

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• We are not naturally intelligent, or happy. In fact, every day it is harder to remain intelligent. It seems often that people get intelligent through pain, but you can't be sure because nobody really can say, "I've been suffering".

  Francesco Clemente

  Pain, People, Suffering

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Men, Essence, Seductive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe. We need to really understand that their destiny and our destiny, Africa's destiny, etc., are all completely tied in. The argument for getting to know your neighbors is very compelling.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Destiny, Europe, America

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Jerry Brown

  Needs, Way, Unreasonable

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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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• 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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• ...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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• 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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• With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship - while always taking the partner into consideration, meaning acting openly but still discreetly.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, Husband, Wife

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