(1538 quotes found)
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”
Philip Roth
“No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.”
Stephen Jay Gould
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”
William Feather
“The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell”
Simone Weil
“Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them”
Peter Ustinov
“For God's sake, give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”
John Sterling
“Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.”
Edward de Bono
“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence”
Malcolm X
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason”
Marya Mannes
