Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Montagu

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

Edwin Land

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Ednita Nazario

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

Bertrand Russell

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Bertrand Russell

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural.

Carlos Castaneda

One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.

C. S. Lewis

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

Agnes Repplier

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

Alan Turing

If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.

Charlie Munger

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.

Charlie Munger

It's my guess that something like 5% of GDP goes to money management and itsattendant friction. I define it broadly - annuities, incentive pay, all trading, etc. Nobody else has used figures that high, but that's my guess. Worst of all, the people doing this are among the best and the brightest. Hundreds and thousands of engineers, etc. are going into hedge funds and investment banking. That is not an intelligent allocation of the brainpower of the civilization.

Charlie Munger

The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

Charlie Munger

We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?' Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts... Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day -- if you live long enough -- most people get what they deserve.

Charlie Munger

You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves your ability to focus on reality. If you don't have the cast of mind, you're destined for failure even if you have a high I.Q.

Billy West

I'm not like a high intellectual.

Bernard Pivot

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

Edna Ferber

No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

Edgar Mitchell

I think of the universe as the body of God, and the creative capability we see and can exhibit as the mind of God. I will use this phrase to describe our system, that it's a creative, intelligent, self-organizing, learning trial-and-error, interactive, non-locally interconnected evolutionary system.

Arthur C. Clarke

I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

Arthur C. Clarke

The best proof of intelligent life in space is that it hasn't come here.

Arthur C. Clarke

Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

Arthur C. Clarke

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

Arthur C. Clarke

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Arthur C. Clarke

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Diana Vreeland

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

Diana Vreeland

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

William Shakespeare

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Ultimately it makes sense for Intel to be agnostic. They shouldn't be taking sides.

Dianne Wiest

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.

Alexandre Dumas

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Albert Schweitzer

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.