#intelligent

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#could #educated #education #highly #intelligence

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#body #company #especially #flesh #forms

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

— Aldous Huxley

#cynical #doing #excuse #intelligent #intolerable

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. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#funny #great #horror #horror film #intelligent

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. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#course #go #gotten #i #intelligence

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly. ↗

— Diogenes

#intelligent #man #most #silly

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#around #best #big #body #crude

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#design #how #intelligent #legislature #look

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. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being