Intelligent Quotes
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"...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—"
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"What we ever hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence."
Quote by -Samuel Johnson
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
Quote by -Charles Darwin
"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted"
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
Quote by -Charles Bukowski
"People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man."
Quote by -Catherine Deneuve
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
Quote by -John Ruskin
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
Quote by -Henry Ford
"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
Quote by -Cameron Diaz
“Shall I think that the Creator has made man so as to leave him to debate endlessly in the intellectual miseries that surround us? I cannot believe this: God prepares a firmer and calmer future for European societies; I am ignorant of his designs, but I will not cease to believe in them [merely] because I cannot penetrate them, and I would rather doubt my enlightenment than his justice.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“One of the commonest weaknesses of human intelligence is the wish to reconcile opposing principles and to purchase harmony at the expense of logic.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a brain must have something in it.”
Quote by -Arthur Conan Doyle
I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.
Quote by -William Gerald Golding
Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
Quote by -Tahar Ben Jelloun
There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise.
Quote by -Thomas Merton
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
Quote by -Christopher Hitchens