Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a threat...This is the object of our intelligence (verification).

Brad Smith

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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

Albert Einstein

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.

Albert Einstein

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Alexander Downer

We want to keep supporting the Indonesian government, the Indonesian police, the Indonesian intelligence services and, of course, the people of Indonesia,

Agatha Christie

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

No one knows what the market will look like next year and a profit warning from Intel does not bode well.

John McCarthy

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Jane Addams

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

Jane Addams

We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.

Jane Austen

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Ben Folds

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

Carl von Clausewitz

Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

Bryant H. McGill

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Cesar Millan

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

Catherine Ponder

Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent, harmonious results.

Alan Lightman

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

Alain de Botton

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

Charles Darwin

If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case, they deserve to be called intelligent; for they act in nearly the same manner as would man under similar circumstances.

Charles Darwin

The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.

Charles Darwin

It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.

Charles Darwin

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a Theist.

Brenda Laurel

Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

Barry Goldwater

It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I can't tell you what was inside. We both know about the rumors concerning a captured UFO and crew members. I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

Arthur Schopenhauer

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Bruce Alberts

In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.

Clifford Geertz

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

Seamus Heaney

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Alben W. Barkley

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