Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Kelvin

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

Malcolm Forbes

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Magnus Carlsen

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

Maimonides

The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.

Mahatma Gandhi

If I preach against the modern artificial life of sensual enjoyment, and ask men and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the charkha, I do so because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is no escape from our d.

Gene Wolfe

Woody Allen once said: "You know there must be intelligent life in space. The question is do they have good Chinese restaurants and do they deliver?" Which is really a joke, but it is also a very profound remark. When you say do they have good Chinese restaurants, what you're really saying is, "How much are they like us?" And when you say, "Do they deliver?" you're saying, "Can they get here?" Both of which are profound questions. And at the present, we have no answers.

Freya Stark

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

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.

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.

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

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?

Henry Ward Beecher

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Henry Flynt

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

John Jay Hooker

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

John Jay Chapman

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

John Irving

I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst and I'm not an intellectual.

John Irving

Never confuse faith, or belief—of any kind—with something even remotely intellectual.

John Hodgman

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

John Hagee

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

Ayn Rand

I am not looking for intelligent disagreement any longer.... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.

Ayn Rand

A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Bertrand Russell

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.