Intelligent Quotes

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

~ Simone Weil

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

~ George Orwell

You have to talk about 'The Terminator' if you're talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that's way off. I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

~ Gray Scott

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

~ Marya Mannes

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.

~ Robert Jarvik

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

~ Ray Kurzweil

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

~ Ed Parker

I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.

~ Mike Mills

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

~ Jean Piaget

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

~ T. S. Eliot

Intelligence is sexy. Don't play dumb, especially young girls. Don't play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

~ Iman

The way you speak should not determine your intelligence. I should be able to say 'lit,' and you still know I'm intelligent. I should be able to say 'turn up,' and that doesn't take away from my intelligence. I wanted to break down that stereotype a little bit.

~ Angie Thomas

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

~ Charles Kettering

I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.

~ Gray Scott

I would argue that in any habitable zone that doesn't boil or freeze, intelligent life is going to emerge because intelligence is convergent.

~ Simon Conway Morris

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

~ Malcolm X

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

~ Frank Sinatra

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

~ Maya Angelou

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

~ Aldous Huxley

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

~ Fidel Castro

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

~ Cate Blanchett

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

~ Nikola Tesla

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

~ Isaac Newton

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

~ Orson Pratt

Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

~ E. F. Schumacher

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

~ Patti Smith

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

~ Richard Linklater

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.

~ Richard Dawkins

Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

~ Burt Rutan

The scientific argument advanced for intelligent design at the Dover trial, those arguments collapsed, scientifically and intellectually.

~ Kenneth R. Miller

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

~ George Lucas

By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

~ Gary Hamel

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

~ Francis Collins

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

~ Kinky Friedman

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

~ Isadora Duncan

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

~ Elayne Boosler