Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

James Surowiecki

Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

James Moore

Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world.

James Moore

If knowledge is power and power corrupt, does knowledge corrupt?

John Dewey

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

Joan Robinson

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.

Georg Simmel

In the immediate as well as the symbolic sense, in the physical as well as the intellectual sense, we are at any moment those who separate the connected, or connect the separate.

George Ade

She was short on intellect, but long on shape.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.

Gary Coleman

I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition.

Gary Coleman

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Elayne Boosler

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

Edward Tufte

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Edward Weston

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.

Edward Burns

There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.

Edward Dahlberg

Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.

Hermann Hesse

If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.

Jose Bergamin

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Jorge Luis Borges

I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Kelly Ayotte

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if its used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think its more effective when its dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Kurt Andersen

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

Narendra Modi

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

Napoleon Hill

Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.

Ludwig Quidde

It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

Lucy Stone

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

Louise Leakey

Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright, walking, big brained, super intelligent ape.

Lord Mountbatten

I am much more intelligent than you think.