Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

Karl Ove Knausgard

I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.

Karl Marx

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Kajol

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

Nick Rahall

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

Mary McCarthy

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

Marvin J. Ashton

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

Neal A. Maxwell

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Muhammad Ali

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

Gregory Maguire

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Giorgio Moroder

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Geraldo Rivera

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.

J. M. Coetzee

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. K. Rowling

What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

H. L. Mencken

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

H. L. Mencken

I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a cynical habit of mind.

H. L. Mencken

Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

Marshall McLuhan

The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

I never thought that I was very intelligent

Paul Goodman

Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

Joseph Sobran

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

Joseph Stalin

Quantity has a quality all its own.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Leonardo da Vinci

The motive power is the cause of all life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

Leonardo da Vinci

That which has no limitations, has no form.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

Leonardo da Vinci

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

Leonardo da Vinci

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.