Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Bruce Davison

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Simone Weil

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

Simone Weil

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

Simon Sinek

Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

Remy de Gourmont

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.

Tim Heidecker

There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

Rob Morrow

I consider myself a student of Hollywood.

Margaret Sanger

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Francine Busby

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

Aron Ralston

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

Liane Moriarty

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Paul Gillmor

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

David Hyde Pierce

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

Edwin Louis Cole

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

Cormac McCarthy

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

We all looked at the same intelligence, and most people -- on the intelligence -- reached the same conclusion.

Madeline Albright

use intelligence to shape policy, not twist intelligence to justify policy.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.