Intelligent Quotes - Page 20

• It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

  Terence McKenna

  Causes, Language, Bigs

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• It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for, and focus on, adaptability has accelerated.

  Kenneth I. Chenault

  Past, Years, Focus

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• The supernatural is being swept out of the universe in the flood of new knowledge of what is natural. It will soon be as impossible for an intelligent, educated man or woman to believe in a god as it is now to believe that earth is flat, that flies can be spontaneously generated, that disease is a divine punishment, or that death is always due to witchcraft.

  Thomas Huxley

  Believe, Men, Earth

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• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.28, Routledge

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• No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Law, Unjust

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• I'm usually taken for a non-intellectual, a person of limited intelligence. I don't know why, but I figure it's because physically I don't look intelligent.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Taken, Intellectual, Looks

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

  Susan Griffin

  Vocabulary, Listening, Democracy

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• The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, Fighting

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• The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, British, Employing

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• We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.

  Larry Constantine

  Mean, Thinking, Magic

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• I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

  Ricky Williams

  Figures, Halfway

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• I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

  Kapil Dev

  Amnesty, Dictionary, Understood

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• The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.

  Joan Baez

  Practice, Quality, Needs

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• Everyone seems to think I'm very ladylike. That I'm very cultured and intelligent. I drink alot of Diet Coke and belch. I've been known to use the F-word. I've told a few dirty jokes. I arm-wrestle.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dirty, Thinking, Use

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• The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.

  David Shuster

  Sex, Boys, Rock And Roll

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

  John Hodgman

  Wish, Brag

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He was just really kind when I met him and nice and really told me why I should play the part...and kind of really didn't argue with him. He's just really, really smart and assembled these really great people. I felt like he really knows how to enlist his intelligence to get you - I don't know - he's really hard to argue with I find.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Weed, Nice, Smart

  Source: collider.com

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• Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.

  Tor Nørretranders

  Beautiful, Sexy, Confused

  Tor Nørretranders (1999). “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size”, Penguin Books

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• The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

  Sun Ra

  Real, People, Mind

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• In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.

  Max Planck

  Matter, Energy, Research

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• Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

  Brenda Laurel

  Enjoy, Complexity

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• As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.

  Laurence Boldt

  Jobs, Artist, Views

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin

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• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Past, Design

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• Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy...The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people...In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Strong, Real, Thinking

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• As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.

  Butterfly Boucher

  Wise, Technology, Thinking

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