Quotes on Intelligent

It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

I have seen many phases of life; I have moved in imperial circles, I have been a Minister of State; but if I had to live my life again, I would always remain in my laboratory, for the greatest joy of my life has been to accomplish original scientific work, and, next to that, to lecture to a set of intelligent students.

A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Breath is the vehicle of consciousness and so, by its slow measured observation and distribution, we learn to tug our attention away from external desires toward a judicious, intelligent awareness.

Lahm is a scandal. He is super-intelligent, understands the game brilliantly, knows when to come inside or to stay wide. The guy is f****** exceptional

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

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.

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

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.

Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.