Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Lee

The show really is balanced, from the writing to the way it's shot, with intelligence and humanity. It's always sweet at the end of the episode. You really do like Earl.

Alex Winter

The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Thornton Wilder

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

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.

Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

John le Carre

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

Henri Bergson

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Pat Roberts

That's not the way to run the Intelligence Committee. We have really politicized it, and I think that's most unfair.

Joseph Joubert

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Gloria Steinem

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

H. L. Mencken

There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

He's not showy. He's quietly effective. He has marshaled his intelligence in the service of getting things done.

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.

James Moore

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

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Mason Cooley

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Nancy Reagan

the charm, the humor, the intelligence -- the wise man that he is.

Linus Torvalds

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Larry Niven

How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a leaf?

John le Carre

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

Malcolm Forbes

The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Josh Billings

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Madame de Stael

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

Teenagers really do get 'dumber' in their social intelligence around the time of puberty,

Lucille Clifton

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

William Feather

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Yuri Gagarin

I don't see any god up here.