We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.George Orwell
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.George Orwell
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.George Orwell
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.Maya Angelou
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.Maya Angelou
