577 Quotes About Intelligent

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.

When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.