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Most Intelligent Quotes

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
- Hermann Hesse

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
- Franz Boas

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Credulous: having views about the world, the universe and humanity's place in it that are shared only by very unsophisticated people and the most intelligent and advanced mathematicians and physicists.
- Terry Pratchett

He is still, at times, astonished by her. She may be the most intelligent woman in England, he thinks. Her books may be read for centuries.
- Michael Cunningham

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
- Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
- Charles Darwin

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

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-
witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the
simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if
he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of
doubt, what is laid before him.
- Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.
- William Saroyan

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of.
- Criss Jami

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.
- Anthony Lapaglia

I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'
- Demetri Martin

The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they aretheir work should speak for itself.
- Tsugumi Ohba

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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