Intelligent Quotes

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

Steve Martin is one of the most intelligent, well-read human beings that I've ever come across. He is equally as funny off screen as he is on. But he also has a very intellectual side, and he's a really nice human being. We actually become good friends.

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.

Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.

The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.

I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

With the EU taking in ten more countries and adopting a new Constitution, organisations need more than ever intelligent professional help in engaging with the EU institutions.