Best Intelligent Quotes

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Sometimes it’s better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you’re going east, and you will be walking east when you think you’re going west.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

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

I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? 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. All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.

What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.

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

Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to predict its future prospects. He has to wait and see. For instance, the hairy mammoth seems to have been an admirable animal, intelligent and well-accoutered. Now that it is extinct, we try to understand why it failed. I doubt that any biologist thinks he could have predicted that failure. Fitness and survival are by nature estimates of past performance.

Sociopath is a word that has sort of become shorthand for psychopath and there’s a distinct difference, it’s interesting if you look it up. Sociopath if you look at the medical definition, the profile of a sociopath is that they are supremely intelligent people that are also pathological liars, they have no moral structure and there is one more, they have no compassion or empathy for other people.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

I’ve been saying for a long time that I’m hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.