#intelligent

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Henry Ward Beecher

#companions #employ #everybody #intelligent #schoolmasters

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. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#average intelligence #car #driven #highly #intelligence

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

— David Bowie

#bright #i #intelligent #life #musicians

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results. ↗

— Harry Browne

#compassionate #directed #intelligently #mind #need

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#behavior #cease #ceases #individual #intelligent

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#come #day #fact #forever #hasn

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#demands #gives #intelligent #man #rights

The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#advanced #because #been #beings #certainty

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#adult #average #better #boy #bright