Intelligent Quotes - Page 35

• I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sleep, Night, Wonder

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

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• I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Thinking, Tree

  Interview with Peter Tyson, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2004.

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• Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Memories, Rely Upon, Understanding

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• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Light, Darkness

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Happiness, Leadership, Procrastination

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Chiefs, Intellect

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.443, GENERAL PRESS

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• Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Courage, Bravery, Protect

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.263, OUP Oxford

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• I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Memorable, Thinking, Brain

  The Observer, December 27, 1987.

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• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

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• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

  Simone Weil

  Pride, Men, Cells

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

  Simone Weil

  Intelligence, Roles, Opinion

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.130, Psychology Press

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• Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

  Simone Weil

  Aggravation, Intelligence, Humans

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• Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Want, Audience

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• There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Smart, People, Stupidity

  Interview with Erik Davis, www.fandango.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

  Orson Welles

  Stupid, People, Dumb

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• I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

  Mary Wesley

  Girl, Men, Found

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• Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wise, Intelligence, Form

  Dialogues (1954) 15 Dec. 1939

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• I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, People, Should

  "Transcript of the complete E.O. Wilson interview". blog.cleveland.com. March 01, 2009.

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• On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Jail, Choices, Prison

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “Cosmic trigger: Down to earth”, New Falcon Pubns

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• If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 50e), 1980.

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• Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clever, Valleys, Green

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 76e), 1980.

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• There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

  Virginia Woolf

  Country, Men, Ideas

  Virginia Woolf (1942). “The death of the moth: and other essays”

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• But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Time, Stubborn, Way

  "Early Poems".

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• In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

  Andrew Young

  People, Moral, Blame

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• True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong.

  Julian Baggini

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Respect for you and your crazy beliefs" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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