Intelligent Quotes - Page 8

• A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.656, Modern Library

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• It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Competition, Solitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

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• ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Men, Emotional, Attractive

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• Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Past, Games, Mind

  J. M. Coetzee (1997). “Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

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• The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Hands, Differences, Needs

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book X, Chapter I, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• I think that sometimes the most intelligent things that prosecutors do is when they exercise their discretion not to go forward with a case.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Exercise, Thinking, Sometimes

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• Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'

  George Carlin

  Hair, Blue, Feel Good

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.393, Hachette UK

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• He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Boss, Trying, Nails

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Science, Support, Leaving

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• Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

  Dale Carnegie

  Decision, United States, Firsts

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.45, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

  Peter Zumthor

  People, Together, Use

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• Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

  Cecil Beaton

  Conceit, Enthusiastic, Frank

  Cecil Beaton (1957). “The Face of the World: An International Scrapbook of People and Places”

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• It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

  Doris Lessing

  Stupid, Fighting, Men

  "Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2001.

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• I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.51, Harper Collins

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• Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromising. An intelligent group, especially when confronted with cognition problems, does not ask its members to modify their positions in order to let the group reach a decision everyone can be happy with. Instead…the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

  James Surowiecki

  Smart, Thinking, Order

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• All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

  Caitlín R. Kiernan

  Voice, Encounters, Compelling

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• May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?

  James Madison

  Country, Communication, Exercise

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.574

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• The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

  Lois Crisler

  Eye, Noble, Gentle

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• Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.

  Timothy Leary

  Evolution, Higher, Trajectory

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.42, Ronin Publishing

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• Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly.

  Joseph Sobran

  People, Stupidity, Democracy

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• Full of fun, over-the-top characters and witty prose, with a touch of gay romance that is equally pleasing to straight readers. The Edwin Drood Murders is the perfect mystery for educated, intelligent readers.

  Rhys Bowen

  Witty, Fun, Character

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• It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Cases

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• Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Play, Long, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.51, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Stupid, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Selfish, Animal, Feelings

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.101, Hackett Publishing

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