There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.
We define boredom as the pain a person feels when he's doing nothing or something irrelevant, instead of something he wants to do but won't, can't, or doesn't dare. Boredom is acute when he knows the other thing and inhibits his action, e. g. , out of politeness, embarrassment, fear of punishment or shame. Boredom is chronic if he has repressed the thought of it and no longer is aware of it. A large part of stupidity is just the chronic boredom, for a person can't learn, or be intelligent about, what he's not interested in, when his repressed thoughts are elsewhere.
Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
A wild appreciation of men and women. . . who passionately and fearlessly and recklessly redefine romance. . . . The passionate creatures who refuse to play it safe and settle down now have an intelligent, like-minded advocate.
The following is a list of statements made many years ago by experts in their fields. At the time they were said they sounded intelligent. With the passing of time, they sound idiotic.
My fans are the best fans, because they're charming, they're sweet and they're super intelligent. Thank you guys so much!
A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. . . . No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.
The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for. . . cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.
In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they're so tough and they're so intelligent, and they're so critical.
Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.
Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.
I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point.
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another.
Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.