Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Thatcher

Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

Leonardo da Vinci

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Leonardo da Vinci

The motive power is the cause of all life.

Leonardo da Vinci

Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

Leonardo da Vinci

That which has no limitations, has no form.

Leonardo da Vinci

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.

Leonardo da Vinci

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

Leonardo da Vinci

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

Leonardo da Vinci

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Leonardo da Vinci

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Leonardo da Vinci

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Leonardo da Vinci

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Lev Grossman

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Laurence Fishburne

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.

P. J. O'Rourke

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

Pablo Picasso

The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Oscar Wilde

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Gregory Maguire

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

Giorgio Moroder

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

Geraldo Rivera

He [Donald Trump] is a tough boss. I've known him for decades. He hasn't changed very much. He's a driven person, highly intelligent, and he's very motivated, very charismatic, and he is tough as nails in the sense there's no slack there. You can't put anything over on Donald. Donald can see right through someone trying to dissemble or spin stuff.

J. M. Coetzee

Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

J. K. Rowling

What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.

Nancy Kress

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Kathryn Minshew

Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

Kenneth R. Miller

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Kenneth R. Miller

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually

Michael Dowd

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.