Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Edgar Mitchell

The universe is a self-organizing, intelligent, creative, trial-and-error learning, participatory, interactive, non-locally interconnected and evolving system.

Edsger Dijkstra

Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.

Ever since the Intel warning, there's been this nagging worry in the market over the outlook for semiconductor shares.

A transition to Intel is technically possible but from a marketing standpoint it could be more challenging, ... Why ruin something that's doing well?

Michael Howard

did not tell the truth about the intelligence he received.

Stephen Hadley

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Chuck Schumer

You may very well possess the most powerful intellect of any person to come before the Senate for this position, ... tour de force.

This is an intelligence loss any way you look at it.

Eric Ross

This is an unusual and unexpected pricing move. Typically, Intel will lower pricing on its older-generation product line when ready to introduce a new product.

This is a solid outlook. There's reason to think Intel will start off this year strong,

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Hans Eysenck

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Gordon Cooper

Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.

Henry David Thoreau

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

Henry David Thoreau

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Henry David Thoreau

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Jessica Lange

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

Jeremy Grantham

Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to Keynes (but never documented): 'The market can stay irrational longer than the investor can stay solvent.' For us agents, he might better have said 'The market can stay irrational longer than the client can stay patient.'

Ernest Hemingway

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Ernest Hemingway

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Ernest Hemingway

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Henri Bergson

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

Catharine Beecher

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Harvey Weinstein

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Harold Urey

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

J. William Fulbright

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Isaac Asimov

Intelligence is a valuable thing, but it is not usually the key to survival. Sheer fecundity ... usually counts. The intelligent gorilla doesn't do as well as the less intelligent but more-fecund rat, which doesn't do as well as the still-less-intelligent but still-more-fecund cockroach, which doesn't do as well as the minimally-intelligent but maximally-fecund bacterium.

Isaac Asimov

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

Jeremy Irons

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

Georges Bataille

Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.