Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mathieu Kassovitz

I don't know if its really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen.

Pablo Neruda

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if its used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think its more effective when its dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Narendra Modi

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

Napoleon Hill

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Northrop Frye

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained, had more languages, had a better sense of proportion, and were infinitely more accurate scholars and competent professional men than I. I had genius. No one else in the field known to me had quite that.

Orson Pratt

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

James Surowiecki

Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

Octavia Butler

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

Epicurus

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Tony Blair

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

Tony Blair

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

Robert A. Heinlein

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

Thomas Szasz

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Lily Tomlin

Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

Lily Tomlin

Did you know, throughout the cosmos they found intelligent life forms that play to play? We are the only ones that play to win. Explains why we have more than our share of losers.

Terry Pratchett

Most people who have found that they are more intelligent than most around them, have yet to learn that one of the most intelligent things they can do is prevent said people ever finding this out.

Terry Pratchett

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

Terry Pratchett

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.

Terry Pratchett

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

Terry Pratchett

Granny Weatherwas was not a jouster in the lists of love, but, as an intelligent onlooker, she knew how the game was played.