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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

I've always liked women. But I don't want somebody who likes me because I'm famous. I like girls who are intelligent and who are kind of quiet like me.

The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others

I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home.

Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

I've thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

I loved to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those 20 years.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

America focuses on being very intelligent because that's how you make more money.

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.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

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.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page.

Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.

For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews.

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

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

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

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

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.