Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Meles Zenawi

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Mason Cooley

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.

Marvin Minsky

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

Marvin Minsky

All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.

Marvin Minsky

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

Michio Kaku

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

Michio Kaku

Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.

Michel Foucault

The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

Ted Nelson

I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

Malcolm Muggeridge

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

Malcolm X

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Malcolm X

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

Malcolm X

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Malcolm X

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west.

Johannes Kepler

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

George Ayittey

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Nancy Reagan

the charm, the humor, the intelligence -- the wise man that he is.

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.

Neal Shusterman

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Rajneesh

Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.

Rajneesh

If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.

Rainer Maria Rilke

And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

Sean Covey

The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.