Intelligent Quotes - Page 37

• No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

  Protagoras

  Confidence, Wisdom, Believe

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• I never thought that I was very intelligent

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

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• Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

  Alan Bennett

  People, Intelligence

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Alan Bennett Plays 1: Forty Years On, Getting On, Habeas Corpus and Enjoy”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other.... While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most settings, uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS."

  Dave Barry

  Mean, People, Brain

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• Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped

  Aeschylus

  Decision, Brain, Trying

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• An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Wall, Women, Cells

  "America's Medieval Women". Harper's Magazine, August 1938.

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Doe, Dull

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• English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

  Cyril Connolly

  Stupid, Law, Two

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1983). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”, HarperCollins

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• Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Simple, Intellectual, Different

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Kids. They're not easy, but there has to be some penalty for having sex.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Kids, Easy

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• The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscient of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks.

  Jacques Vallee

  Risk, Encounters, Would Be

  "Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact". Book by Jacques Vallee, 1990.

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• Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

  Socrates

  Change, Equality, Ignorant

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• Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hate, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Men

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• One who is wise and disciplined, always kind and intelligent, humble and free from pride. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Humble

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• Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people.

  Dave Hunt

  Atheist, People, Atheism

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Horse, Sleep

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• No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Language

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• Any responsive, intelligent cat can be trained.

  Ray Berwick

  Cat

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Epic, Names

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational evidence from highly trained and reliable lay witnesses to indicate that there are unidentified machine-like objects under intelligent control operating in our atmosphere. Such evidence in some cases is supported by anomalous physical effects upon the witnesses, electrical devices, and the environment, as well as by instrumentation such as radar and Geiger counters.

  Raymond E. Fowler

  Years, Atmosphere, Quality

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• I'd always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me. The me that was funny and could write songs that touched people. The me that would one day find some beautiful, intelligent boy who'd recognize me as his soul mate. The me who was secretly pretty and stylish if only someone would lift the veil and see. But I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.

  Sarra Manning

  Beautiful, Girl, Song

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• So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

  Adam Kirsch

  Writing, Answers, Serious

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• The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Reality, Differences, Today

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