Quotes on Intelligent

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally, I hope that I'm right in my belief. It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.