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Quotes About Intelligent

Graham's timeless lesson for the intelligent investor, as valid today as when he prescribed it in his first edition, is clear: "the real money in investment will have to be made—as most of it has been made in the past—not out of buying and selling but of owning and holding securities, receiving interest and dividends and increases in value." His
~ John C. Bogle
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.
~ John Cheever
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
~ John Dewey
An intelligent home differs from an unintelligent one chiefly in that the habits of life and intercourse which prevail are chosen, or at least colored, by the thought of their bearing upon the development of children.
~ John Dewey
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
~ Terence McKenna
The hardware and the software used in the Breakthrough project will be compatible with other telescopes around the world, so they too can search for intelligent life.
~ Yuri Milner
NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking
~ William J. Clinton
in one of those moods, it is not the time for introspection. Beware the preacher because he is beguiling. Because you're intelligent and you like words, and you grew up in a strict moral framework, when you hear arguments mounted against you you can hardly resist answering back. But once you join in, the preacher has you. You cannot win. The preacher will always have the last word. In those moods, you can never stare him down.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
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.
~ Elayne Boosler
A big problem with the population is that when it is said that the world is full of fools, the duffers who are in the majority find most of the people of their ilk only and so they consider themselves to be sane and an intelligent who looks odd either in the midst of them or outside their circle is regarded a mad or an idiot by those stupids.
~ Anuj Somany
A woman may look an innocent to an ignorant, but only an intelligent man knows as how much poison she might have that of a venomous serpent.
~ Anuj Somany
Every employer in a private organization wants good hardworking employees, but none generally wants to give good remuneration to them especially & usually to the most diligent/intelligent one who richly deserves it.
~ Anuj Somany
Salary and Slavery rhyme with each other and the prime thing often witnessed in the private sector company; the bluffers, credit snatchers and duffers enjoy their life a lot whereas an intelligent and diligent suffers the harassment or humiliation the most.
~ Anuj Somany
Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.
~ Archbishop Oscar Romero
People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design.
~ Richard Dawkins
George Saunders is a complete genius.
~ Bill Hader
Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
~ Isaac Newton
Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
~ Robyn Davidson
Bill Gallagher's new version of 'The Prisoner' is an enthralling commentary on modern culture. It is witty, intelligent and disturbing. I am very excited to be involved.
~ Ian Mckellen
The prime principle then in man's constitution is the social. And the second is not to yield to the persuasions of the body,—for it is the peculiar office of the rational and intelligent motion to circumscribe itself, and never to be overpowered either by the motion of the senses or of the appetites, for both are animal: but the intelligent motion claims superiority, and does not permit itself to be overpowered by the others.
~ Marcus Aurelius
There is one universe out of all things, one god pervading all things, one substance, one law, one common reason in all intelligent beings, and one truth.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Arapahos had followed the buffalo, pitched villages in the lee of the mountains, ridden out like itinerant shop-keepers to trade buffalo robes and blankets with other Indian tribes. Intelligent, logical, peaceful, that was the Arapahos. "The businessmen of the plains," the first white traders had called them.
~ Margaret Coel
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly.
~ Donald Shoup