Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo da Vinci

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Leonardo da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Lev Grossman

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Leon Krier

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

Laurence Fishburne

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed.

Nathan Myhrvold

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Naeem Khan

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.

R. C. Sproul

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

Neve Campbell

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Noam Chomsky

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

Noam Chomsky

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Noam Chomsky

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Noam Chomsky

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Kenneth R. Miller

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Kenneth R. Miller

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

Omari Hardwick

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

Oliver Goldsmith

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Margaret Thatcher

Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

P. J. O'Rourke

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

Pablo Picasso

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

Paul Johnson

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Oscar Wilde

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Oscar Wilde

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

Oscar Wilde

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Maeve Binchy

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!