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.

I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it's always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

Both talent and trials are Life's ways of making us who we must be. When going through a complex, inscrutable, challenge, don't we often lament that we are being unfairly tested by Life? Don't we wonder why we have to go through sh*t, despite being talented, intelligent and ethical? You see, talent is what we are endowed with. And our trials are non-negotiable. They are what we are meant to ? and must ? go through. So, accept what is and flow with Life?

Just as being human is crucial to living responsibly, so is staying true, being authentic, key to living intelligently, to living happily. You are unhappy the moment you stop being true or being authentic.

Our lives have always been guided, shaped and led by a higher energy. Our education (mostly academic) and economic power (money, material wealth) make us believe that we are in control. We were never, are not and will never be in control. Life has been in control, is in control and will always be in control. The essence of intelligent living is the ability to embrace uncertainty and flow with Life, doing what you can do best in any given circumstance.

Everyone has to go through what they have to go through. So, prayer, surrender, being in the moment, doing your best in every moment? that is the only way to live intelligently...there is no other way!

Money is a human invention. When we work without being shackled by economic considerations, we work to the best of our abilities, we deliver High-Performance. Then we are creative and resourceful, we follow our Bliss, we are truly happy. This happens because Life wants us to be happy doing what we love doing. This does not mean money is not important. It is. But we must learn to treat money only as an important resource. And we must learn to live Life fully despite either its presence or absence. This, as we understand it, is intelligent living!

Authentically stupid people are very rare on this planet. It is usually just intelligent people acting stupid that we encounter these days.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

As to when I shall visit civilization, it will not be soon, I think. I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and starsprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

People who are not intelligent or with the lowest IQ , always reason by insults , fight or violence.

We're not really a very intelligent species when we destroy our home.

Talking nonsense is as difficult for an intelligent person as talking sense is for an idiot.

An intelligent woman is a goldmine! She has the ability to learn, reason and understand things better and faster than her contemporaries. She is competent, alert and can reason out stuffs easily.

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Most intelligent people fail and succeed because of their desire to achieve something greater than their intelligence.

Being educated is the closest most people will ever get to being wise or intelligent.