Famous Quotes & Sayings

Condoleezza Rice

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.

Cyrano de Bergerac

We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.

Clifford D. Simak

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species

Confucius

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

David Bowie

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Deepak Chopra

The brain is a dynamic system that constantly processes and creates your reality. It works best if you balance all the things that the brain is good at. The brain is good at being adaptable, flexible, creative, and intelligent. But it's also good at playing and just being. A balanced life provides time - every day if possible - so that every function of the brain is allowed to come alive and flourish.

Amar Bose

Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.

Anna Quindlen

If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich , sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design , or at least intelligent design in humans .

Amy Tan

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.

Amory Lovins

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

Amitabh Bachchan

I am not as intelligent as Aamir Khan . I am barely managing to be in front of the camera. There are many people who know marketing well and surely Aamir knows much more than I do.

Anthony Burgess

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

Barry Ritholtz

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

B. F. Skinner

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

B. F. Skinner

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

Cecil Beaton

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Carl Sagan

Is mankind alone in the universe? Or are there somewhere other intelligent beings looking up into their night sky from very different worlds and asking the same kind of question?

Bette Davis

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Benjamin Rush

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...

Arsene Wenger

Everybody has a different opinion in this league and nobody is a prophet. I personally don't know who will win the league. I managed 1,600 games so, if Nani knows, he must be 1,600 times more intelligent than I am.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

Bennett Cerf

I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.

Bill Gates

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

Che Guevara

The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.

Carl Jung

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots...

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...

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.

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.

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.