Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless youre really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.
Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.
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.
Art must not be intelligent; art is a jouisance, an enjoyment
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.
General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. ' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!
Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!
I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others.
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.
The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.
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.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent.
It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics.