Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott M. Gimple

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

Seth Shostak

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

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.

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.

Samuel Johnson

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure.

Samuel Johnson

All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

Sam Brownback

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

Roberto Orci

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

Robertson Davies

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be left to take care of itself. One sees them fussing about all sorts of lesser concerns, apparently unaware that side by side with them often in the same bed a human creature is perishing from lack of affection, of emotional malnutrition.

Robert Southey

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

Robert M. Pirsig

Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.

Robert M. Pirsig

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Robert M. Pirsig

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

Robert M. Pirsig

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.

Walt Kelly

Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine)

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.

Sallust

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Saadi

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Rumi

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Roy Hattersley

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

Susan Griffin

In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

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.