Top 404 Intelligent Quotes

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Daniel Goleman
I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.
Christine Ebersole
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
Orison Swett Marden
You should be watching ‘White Collar’ because it’s a fun, intelligent procedural infused with a lot of great character writing by Jeff Eastin.
Matt Bomer
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
Richard Dawkins
It’s been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to ‘Beautiful Children,’ not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings.
Charles Bock
The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.
Stephen Hawking
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Aldo Leopold
The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.
Mahathir Mohamad
For all we know, we are the only shot the universe has at intelligent self-organization. Therefore, we need to take it seriously.
Mark Manson
As a pop star, you don’t have to be that smart for people to think you’re intelligent.
Adam Levine
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison
There is an immediate payoff to intelligent design: it destroys the atheistic legacy of Darwinian evolution. Intelligent design makes it impossible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.
William A. Dembski
The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertainingly, as possible.
Craig Brown
My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
James D. Watson
When I look at me, I think I’m a good catch. Why wouldn’t somebody like me for me? I’m a pleasant person. I’m an intelligent person. I’m a good person. I’m not bad looking. Why wouldn’t I be able to get somebody to like me?
Tina Knowles
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.
Dylan Moran
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
Joyce Meyer
You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in an intelligent way and then they are replicated, that’s a beautiful thing. If you make things in a bad way and they are replicated, the wrong is multiplied.
Ross Lovegrove
Kids today are so intelligent and computer savvy, so pairing an interactive computer world with something cuddly seems like a natural fit.
Ty Warner
You have to talk about ‘The Terminator’ if you’re talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that’s way off. I don’t think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture.
Gray Scott
I loved ‘Homeland’ – it’s such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
Lindsay Duncan
I play Dr. Karen Boyer in ‘Spies Like Us.’ She’s strong, intelligent and dedicated and just happens to be beautiful.
Donna Dixon
I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It’s a crime not to help them.
Dick Van Patten
To have the opportunity to be creative and clarify the nature of that creativity, there are definitely some long days, some 18-20 hour days with interviews or computer work, but I have a friend who is every bit as intelligent and creative as me who works at the mill.
Devin Townsend
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not leas

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
Dave deBronkart
I don’t have a type. I am more of a sapiosexual person. The girl has to be intelligent.
Siddharth Shukla
When I used to play against Bayern, Xabi Alonso always used to give me a really hard time. He was so experienced… he made me suffer. The way he’d keep switching play just meant that you could never stop running. He was very intelligent.
Naby Keita
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
Jaan Tallinn
No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response to growing social needs.
Vincent Nichols
Birdman is probably one of the most intelligent music moguls out there.
Jay Sean
I like observing intelligent people who have expertise in areas I’m mostly ignorant about.
Lisa Hanawalt
Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
Barry Ritholtz
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear – such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with.
Michael Leunig
I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it’s always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.
Hina Khan
That was sort of the ‘Second City’ approach, which was try to be intelligent and assume your audience is intelligent. We were influenced by ‘Monty Python,’ too, which would have philosophers in a wrestling match.
Joe Flaherty
Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
Ian K. Smith
Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment – some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they’re younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.
John Darnielle
Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
George Gilder
I only sound intelligent when there’s a good script writer around.
Christian Bale
I am very much in favor of women’s rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
Gal Gadot
People might find me attractive, but it’s also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
Portia de Rossi
You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don’t have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it’s futile.
Lakeith Stanfield
I’m an intelligent man but I don’t feel I articulate or get that across nearly enough, especially in social situations.
Jeremy Kyle
We do have very intelligent actresses in our country. They’re all very capable, smart and are managing their professions very well.
Soha Ali Khan
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: ‘I hope they’re doing well in school. I hope they’re bright.’ And I think: ‘Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?’ Academia is a lonely world.
Helen McCrory
Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
Milla Jovovich
The sun doesn’t always shine; the wind doesn’t always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate.
Jens Martin Skibsted
As nature discovered early on, vision is one of the most powerful secret weapons of an intelligent animal to navigate, survive, interact, and change the complex world it lives in.
Fei-Fei Li
Anyone who teaches knows that you don’t really experience a text until you’ve taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
Joyce Carol Oates
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he’s very cool and he’s very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I’d like to have an attorney like him.
Tommy Bond
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
Michael Eric Dyson
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.
Francis Collins
I don’t care about the bare fact that anyone liked or didn’t like a book or movie; they can only interest me in that bare fact by writing an intelligent review.
Michelle Dean
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief. He slyly suggests that the doubter, the skeptic, the cynic is sophisticated and intelligent, while those who have faith in God and His miracles are naive, blind, or brainwashed.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf