Quotes on Intelligent

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: "Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?".

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.

And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.

How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.