Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Neal A. Maxwell

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.

Muhammad Ali

I'm going to, not I'm gonna. Talk intelligent

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.

Naeem Khan

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.

R. C. Sproul

Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.

Neve Campbell

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

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

Omari Hardwick

Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

Oliver Goldsmith

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Margaret Thatcher

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

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.

Maeve Binchy

In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!

Madonna Ciccone

I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I'm entertaining them and I know that they know. Obviously, the best meetings are with suits that are intelligent, because then things are operating on a whole other level.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Nick Rahall

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.

Mary McCarthy

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

Marvin J. Ashton

Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.