Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toni Cade Bambara

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

Thomas Carlyle

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Steven Johnson

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming evidence that contradicted their most basic theories? These questions, too, deserve their own discipline: the sociology of error.

Stephen Hawking

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

Stephen King

Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design. But at the same time there's a lot of things in life where you say to yourself, well, if this is God's plan, it's very peculiar. And you have to wonder about that guy's personality, the big guy's personality.

Stephen Hawking

Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself.

Stephen Hawking

The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behavior.

Stanley Baldwin

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Stanley Crouch

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Stanley Crouch

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.

Sigmund Freud

There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one.

Shahrukh Khan

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.

Shakti Gawain

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Steven Pinker

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Sun Tzu

There is an intelligent way to eat a live frog - I just don't know what it is.

Sun Tzu

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things.

Ridley Scott

I love different themes, different venues, different movies. I love to jump about and tackle different subjects. I have no intellectual master plan.

Ricky Williams

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

Tariq Ramadan

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

Tariq Ramadan

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

T. S. Eliot

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Susan Sontag

All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.

Susan Sontag

A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

Susan Sontag

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.

Susan Sontag

I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.

Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Joshua Waitzkin

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

Joseph Epstein

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

Raj Thackeray

I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.

Rahul Dravid

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

Radhanath Swami

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is very narrow. Bring any club or company of intelligent men together again after ten years, and if the presence of some penetrating and calming genius could dispose them to frankness, what a confession of insanities would come up!