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...

But I feel like letting other people be good for me--after all, I'm just an unhappy little girl and even if I'm extremely intelligent, that doesn't change anything, does it? An unhappy little girl who, just when things are at their worst, has been lucky enough to meet some good people. Morally, do I have the right to let this chance go by? - Muriel Barbery I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together. - Stanley Crouch Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent. - Sherman Alexie Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. - Edward De Bono I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe the gods and other spirits don't exist. These people are mistaken, and you know it as well as I do. It is possible for highly intelligent people to have a very useful but mistaken theory, and we don't have to pretend otherwise in order to show respect for these people and their ways. - Daniel Dennett Very often among a certain highly intelligent type of people, quite paradoxical ideas will esta...

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. - Marshall Mcluhan It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics. - George Bernard Shaw There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. - George Orwell The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow olderintelligence and good manners. - F Scott Fitzgerald I've never really had any luck with women in my life. Well, at first I was fairly lucky. Then all of a sudden, they all thought they had to get married for some reason. And not to me. It's especially strange, because I almost always fell in love with the very smart girls. Even that didn't help matters. I don't see how any intellig...

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 spe...

Then you're going to stay in that net until eternity comes to pass. (Sin) Well, that's really intelligent, isn't it? What are you going to do? Put drinks on me or just use me as a conversation piece whenever friends come over? And let's not even think about what's going to happen when I need to use the restroom, shall we? I hope you have a standing order at Sofa Express. (Kat) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent.It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. - H L Mencken Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well. - Yvonne Strahovski

By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself. - Larry Mcmurtry If the recently graduated college alumna can't turn her trained brain to some intelligent awareness of our responsibilities in World Affairs, we're going to foul up our leadership like England did, as sure as God made little green apples. - Elaine Dundy I'm sad. Pressed down by sorrow. I'm angry. Pissed at God, if there is one, and the way things are. I'm scared. Confused by the whys. Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? (358) - Ellen Hopkins

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 spe...

Good job," Alyx snapped. "You're very intelligent, Raye. You almost hit mom's car. - Millicent Ashby The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression. - Albert Camus I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he's very knowledgeable, and I think that personally I'd like to have an attorney like him. - Tommy Bond I never thought that I was very intelligent. - Marion Zimmer Bradley Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. - Marshall Mcluhan...