Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.
Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.
It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. ' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.
I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.
. . the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.
A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
The question is not whether there is intelligent life out there, the question is, whether there is intelligent life down here. As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Higher has always been the trajectory of intelligent evolution.
I do have high expectations for Alex Riley. He seems athletic, articulate and intelligent. Only time will tell how far he goes, but Riley has bonafide potential. FCW did a nice job of preparing Alex for WWE. Alex's future success is largely up to Alex.
For the actor's wishes to be respected in terms of characteristics that your character's gonna have, you have to work with good and intelligent and talented stunt people that not only can carry weapons well but can also carry a personality.
Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste.
I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.
A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies. . . Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode. . . because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.