#intelligent people

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

I've gotten to go wonderful places, meet interesting and intelligent people, and I started of course in the theatre and continue to work in the theatre where there is some intelligence involved in it. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#course #go #gotten #i #intelligence

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#collect #existed #form #friends #graphic

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#been #disappointed #fact #faith #intelligent

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#difficult #friends #guitar #had #i

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#come #doctor #intelligence #intelligent #intelligent people

Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#best #carrot #disagree #east #even

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #handle #intelligent #intelligent people #people

Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. ↗

— Rufus Jones

#intelligent #intelligent people #nations #people #thugs

Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ↗

— Ernest Bevin

#intelligent people #look #people #scapegoat #unintelligent