Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean O'Casey

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Leymah Gbowee

My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

Lewis Mumford

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Neil Postman

Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.

Vanna Bonta

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

Suzanne Brockmann

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

Taryn Manning

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

Stanford Moore

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Marcus Aurelius

No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.

Marc Maron

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

Thomas a Kempis

Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it, and never destroy it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Sheryl Sandberg

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

Natalie Portman

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

Tallulah Bankhead

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Sy Montgomery

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.

Tony Blair

Our aim is not just an educated nation but an intelligent one

Tony Blair

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.

Robert A. Heinlein

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

Robert A. Heinlein

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

Robert A. Heinlein

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

Robert A. Heinlein

Faith is intellectual laziness.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Thomas Szasz

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

Thomas Jefferson

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Raymond Aron

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Toni Morrison

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Todd Akin

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

Tim Daly

What attracted me to it, beyond it being really intelligent, was that it was sadly something that would be unique on television. Anchoring this political show is this vital, dynamic, complex, thriving marriage. These people are passionately and fiercely committed to making it work out.

Tanith Lee

It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

Tadao Ando

I think everyone needs a goal. And what kind of goal will be important. And for that we have to study and we have to be intelligent.

Sylvia Pankhurst

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

Rumi

It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.