#intelligent

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

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They think we’re intelligent. So, Marco, keep quiet. We don’t want them to learn the truth.” Rachel ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#intelligent #marco #quite #rachel #intelligence

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#father #grew #i #intelligentsia #kind

No quality imparts apparent strength to its possessors more effectively than faith. From hospital beds to battlefields, it is the iron that strengthens a man to confront his destiny. ↗

— Mike Corbett

#demons #heaven #hell #intelligent-humor #irreverent-humor

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

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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I have four strikes against me. I'm black, I'm short, I'm intelligent, and I have a medical condition. ↗

— Gary Coleman

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Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#comes #existence #first #intelligent #intelligent life

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way. ↗

— Mos Def

#articulate #artist #everyday #experience #express