Intelligent Quotes - Page 39

• The only intelligent way to discuss politics is
  on all fours.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Way, Fours

  "Borders". Documentary, www.imdb.com. May 5, 1989.

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• My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Grace, Conclusion, Aspire

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• I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

  Maya Angelou

  Positive, Giving, World

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.psychologytoday.com. February 17, 2009.

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• I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the USA. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress... It's too late to pray for the USA.

  Fred Phelps

  Way, Too Late, Flags

  "God Hates America". WBC Download Center, September 14, 2001.

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• When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Frustrated, Use

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• Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain.

  Frank Drake

  May, Common, Aliens

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• We feel certain that the extraterrestrial message is a mathematical code of some kind. Probably a number code. Mathematics is the one language we might conceivably have in common with other forms of intelligent life in the universe. As I understand it, there is no reality more independent of our perception and more true to itself than mathematical reality.

  Don DeLillo

  Independent, Reality, Numbers

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• The most important thing to remember about drunks is that drunks are far more intelligent than non-drunks- they spend a lot of time talking in pubs, unlike workaholics who concentrate on their careers and ambitions, who never develop their higher spiritual values, who never explore the insides of their head like a drunk does.

  Shane MacGowan

  Spiritual, Work, Drinking

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• We have never denied that it is possible, indeed probable, that other forms of life, even intelligent life, exist in the universe. But this is different from the belief that we are now being visited by extraterrestrial beings in spacecraft, that they are abducting people, and the there is a vast government cover-up.

  Paul Kurtz

  Government, People, Different

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Men, Expression

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• [...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Atheist, Smart, Dark

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• The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries and then went roistering down the highways of the world, proving to all men that doubt, after all, was safe - that the god in the sanctuary was finite in his power and hence a fraud. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Cat, Gay

  "Clinical Notes". The American Mercury (January 1924), p. 75; later quoted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Fourth Series", 1924.

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• An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Art, Drama, Fiction

  Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.114, DoctorZed Publishing

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• I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Believe

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• He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

  Confucius

  Successful, Chinese, Mind

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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• I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

  Miuccia Prada

  Beautiful, Clothes, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He's an old good fighter, he's an intelligent fighter but I wouldn't say he's the best I've ever fought.

  Joe Calzaghe

  Motivation, Fighter, Good Fight

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• By 'God', I understand, a substance which is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, supremely powerful, and which created both myself and everything else [...] that exists. All these attributes are such that, the more carefully I concentrate on them, the less possible it seems that they could have originated from me alone. So, from what has been said it must be concluded that God necessarily exists.

  Rene Descartes

  Powerful, Independent, Substance

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• Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

  Oscar Romero

  Beautiful, Long, Want

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• The experienced, wise, energetic, intelligent individual functioning in a loose coalition with others in a wide network is far more effective than he is in a tightly organized group.

  John C. Lilly

  Wise, Groups, Psychedelic

  John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”

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• While we may continue to use the words
  smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
  persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
  of those who believe in a single general
  intelligence has come to an end. Brain
  scientists and geneticists are documenting
  the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

  Howard Gardner

  Smart, Stupid, Believe

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• Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.

  William A. Dembski

  Origin Of Life, Giving, Design

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• This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lying, Animal, History

  Christopher Hibbert, Benito Mussolini (1962). “Benito Mussolini: a biography”

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• The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

  James Dickey

  New York, Crazy, Creative

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