Intelligent Quotes - Page 33

• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

  Marya Mannes

  Happiness, Emotional, Impulse Control

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

  Marilyn Manson

  America, Fans, Way

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• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

  Karl Marx

  Simple, Levels, Bourgeoisie

  Das Kapital vol. 1, ch. 16 (1867) (translation by Ben Fowkes)

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• Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, People, Different

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• Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, People, Common Sense

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “Hearing from God Each Morning: 365 Daily Devotions”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

  Joni Mitchell

  Art, Careers, Firsts

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

  Jose Mourinho

  Beautiful, People, Brain

  "Mourinho in his own words" by Chris Charles, news.bbc.co.uk. September 20, 2007.

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• I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Daughter, Mother, Strong

  "5 Questions with Isaiah Mustafa, Apologizes for 'Good Hair' Comments". Interview with Abiola Abrams, www.essence.com. October 3, 2011.

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• Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Class, Details, Taught

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.67, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

  Yoko Ono

  Clever, Trying, Appreciated

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• There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Ideas, Thrive

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• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Political, Catholic

  "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Insomnia

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• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  George Orwell

  Giving, Atheism, Literature

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

  Men, Personality, Intellectual

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Stupid, Military, War

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• Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Needs, Next, Sophisticated

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• Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Dinner, Parks, Facts

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

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• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  Ed Parker

  Success, Learning, Men

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• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Knowledge

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

  Amanda Peet

  Children, Thinking, Creating

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. May 13, 2012.

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• Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

  John Podhoretz

  Country, Fighting, Men

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• Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Directors

  "Ryan Reynolds On Set Interview Green Lantern". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game otherwise she'd make mincemeat of you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Games, Mets, Meetings

  "The Bookers' favourite". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Children, Thinking, Essence

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