A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.
- James Allen
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
- James Allen
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
- Thomas Carlyle
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.
- Muriel Barbery
I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
- Pat Buckley
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales..
- Albert Einstein
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
- Coco Chanel
n 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
- Coco Chanel
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
- Gary Coleman
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?
- John Green
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve
The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.
- Diane Von Furstenberg
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
- Joseph Goebbels
I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
- Sylvia Plath
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism.
Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.
- Sam Harris
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.
- Dorothy L Sayers
Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.
- Dorothy L Sayers
There's nothing special about politicians as people. Now as animals, they'd be extraordinary for their ability to be intelligent enough (barely) to be potty trained.
- Jarod Kintz
I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
- Paulina Porizkova
People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
- Portia De Rossi
Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistressprobably had never even begun to see into himself
- Philip Roth
- James Allen
Man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild.
- James Allen
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
- Thomas Carlyle
But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.
- Muriel Barbery
I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
- Pat Buckley
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales..
- Albert Einstein
In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
- Coco Chanel
n 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.
- Coco Chanel
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
- Gary Coleman
Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you're a nerd is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Linsey Lohan. Why is that?
- John Green
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
- Catherine Deneuve
The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.
- Diane Von Furstenberg
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
- Joseph Goebbels
I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.
- Sylvia Plath
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often make a religious fetish of individualism.
Many seem to have absolutely no awareness of how fortunate one must be to succeed at anything in life, no matter how hard one works. One must be lucky to be able to work. One must be lucky to be intelligent, physically healthy, and not bankrupted in middle age by the illness of a spouse.
- Sam Harris
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.
- Dorothy L Sayers
Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamoured, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realised that there was, after all, something god-like about him. He could control a horse.
- Dorothy L Sayers
There's nothing special about politicians as people. Now as animals, they'd be extraordinary for their ability to be intelligent enough (barely) to be potty trained.
- Jarod Kintz
I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.
- Paulina Porizkova
People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.
- Portia De Rossi
Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistressprobably had never even begun to see into himself
- Philip Roth