Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Don Herold

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

Raymond Kelly

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

Margaret Sanger

The masses of Negroes...particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disasterously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit...

Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.

Nolberto Solano

We have to play with intelligence and try to stop them getting the ball,

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

William Shakespeare

He was not so much brain as earwax

E. F. Schumacher

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

Alice Lowe

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

Alice Hamilton

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

Alice Eve

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

Alben W. Barkley

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Albert Camus

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist.

Albert Camus

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

Albert Camus

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Amanda Palmer

One thing about being a performer is you're not just doing an intellectual job behind a desk; you're out there performing and being looked at, being assessed for really superficial stuff.

Annie Besant

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

Daniel Kahneman

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do.

Clarence Darrow

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.

Alexander Pope

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

Donald Barthelme

I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets have the conditions, the physical conditions, to support life in the way it happened here, did Christ visit each and every planet, go through the same routine, the Agony in the Garden, the Crucifixion, and so on...

Dylan Moran

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

Dylan Moran

You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

Douglas Adams

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

Douglas Adams

You may not instantly see why I bring the subject up, but that is because my mind works so phenomenally fast, and I am at a rough estimate thirty billion times more intelligent than you. Let me give you an example. Think of a number, any number.” “Er, five,” said the mattress. “Wrong,” said Marvin. “You see?

Douglas Adams

and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

Doris Lessing

Intelligence forbids tears.

Donald A. Wollheim

I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.

Dale Carnegie

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

Claude Levi-Strauss

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.