Quotes about Intelligent People

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore. Votes: 3

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. Votes: 2

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Votes: 2

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. Votes: 2

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. Votes: 2

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them. Votes: 2

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. Votes: 2

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive. Votes: 2

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. Votes: 2

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle. Votes: 2

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. Votes: 2

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. Votes: 2

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down. Votes: 2

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. Votes: 2

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them. Votes: 2

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. Votes: 2

Most of our fans seem to be very intelligent people who don't stand out too much, but they're still total freaks. I like that - they're smart and sadistic, which I think is a reflection at us. Votes: 2

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot. Votes: 2

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me. Votes: 2

They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world. Votes: 2

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. Votes: 2

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Votes: 2

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted. Votes: 2

Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity. Votes: 1

Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated. Votes: 0

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves. Votes: 0

Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs. Votes: 0

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people. Votes: 0

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent. Votes: 0

Atheism leads to numerous absurdities promoted by otherwise intelligent people. Votes: 0

Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave. Votes: 0

People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design. Votes: 0

Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything. Votes: 0

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists? Votes: 0

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth. Votes: 0

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent. Votes: 0

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. Votes: 0

An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is. Votes: 0

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. Votes: 0

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature. Votes: 0

Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people. Votes: 0

There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people. Votes: 0

Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for. Votes: 0

The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people. Votes: 0

Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people." Votes: 0

Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp. Votes: 0

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices Votes: 0

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous. Votes: 0

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime. Votes: 0

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. Votes: 0

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Votes: 0

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. Votes: 0

Ignorant people remain ignorant because they have a secret agreement to call one another intelligent. Votes: 0

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers. Votes: 0

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. Votes: 0

Quotes are for dumb people who can't think of something intelligent to say on their own. Votes: 0

Mass democracy guarantees stupidity. Masses of people, even if they're individually intelligent, can only act stupidly. Votes: 0

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent. Votes: 0

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent. Votes: 0

As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent. Votes: 0

An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. Votes: 0

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools. Votes: 0

Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world. Votes: 0

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. Votes: 0

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools. Votes: 0

For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape. Votes: 0

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions. Votes: 0

I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising. Votes: 0

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. Votes: 0

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it. Votes: 0

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information? Votes: 0

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent. Votes: 0

Hollywood is not stupid, contrary to popular belief; it's really a lot of intelligent people trying to figure things out. Votes: 0

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest. Votes: 0

Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing. Votes: 0

The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people. Votes: 0

People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde. Votes: 0

the nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too ... Votes: 0

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. Votes: 0

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant. Votes: 0

Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative. Votes: 0

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. Votes: 0

I don't care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces "˜intelligence. Votes: 0

I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will. Votes: 0

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza. Votes: 0

People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent. Votes: 0

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. Votes: 0

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. Votes: 0

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. Votes: 0

I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise. Votes: 0

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers. Votes: 0

I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore. Votes: 0

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. Votes: 0

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. Votes: 0

I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. Votes: 0

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Votes: 0

All the inane, meaningless noises people make that pass for intelligent conversation. They might as well be pigs grunting in the pen. (92) Votes: 0

Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future... Votes: 0

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. Votes: 0

People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent. Votes: 0

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people. Votes: 0

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book. Votes: 0

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are. Votes: 0

Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing. Votes: 0

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe. Votes: 0

If one is intelligent and applies himself well, what can he not accomplish? Even small bands of people, I have heard, have defeated whole armies. Votes: 0

Even though some people give you no respect, be intelligent when you put them in check, cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way. Votes: 0

This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated. Votes: 0

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves. Votes: 0

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. Votes: 0

Sometimes it seemsas though only intelligent people are stupid enough to fall in love & only stupid people are intelligent enough to let themselves be loved. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each other... Votes: 0

We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us! Votes: 0

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. Votes: 0

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. Votes: 0

I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer. Votes: 0

And therefore only the enlightened sovereign and the worthy general who are able to use the most intelligent people as agents are certain to achieve great things. Votes: 0

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. Votes: 0

I stay fat because it just wouldn't be fair to all the thin people if I were this good-looking, intelligent, funny, and thin. It's a public service really. Votes: 0

Science is a philosophy of discovery; intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance... Something fundamamental is going on in people's minds when they confront things they don't understnd. Votes: 0

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus. Votes: 0

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility. Votes: 0

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive. Votes: 0

But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed. Votes: 0

When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people who were learning about themselves. Votes: 0

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits. Votes: 0

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that. Votes: 0

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. Votes: 0

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that`s no source of pride to me. Intelligent people are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of having character. Votes: 0

People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people. Votes: 0

Show (don't tell) your customers that you have good quality by actually delivering fresh coffee and tea. Intelligent people are active recipients of information, and prefer to reach conclusions by themselves. Votes: 0

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from. Votes: 0

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better. Votes: 0

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized. Votes: 0

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future. Votes: 0

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it. Votes: 0

All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good. Votes: 0

I love teaching. If I made a trillion dollars, I would still teach. It's different every day. You get to meet intelligent people all the time - or at least most of the time. Votes: 0

People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs. Votes: 0

I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing. Votes: 0