#intelligent

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

— Rufus Jones

#intelligent #intelligent people #nations #people #thugs

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #full #intelligent #stupid #trouble

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it! ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#held #him #honestly #i #i do

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#ah #i #intelligent #keep #know

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people. ↗

— Marjane Satrapi

#east #intelligent #people #real #real war

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page. ↗

— George Saunders

#assume #become #bit #definition #dropping

Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work with. He is fun. The entire time, he would go in and out of different characters, just for the fun of it. Awesome energy. ↗

— Jill Scott

#beings #characters #creative #def #different

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #educated #educated people #facts #ignorant

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#always #commitment #effort #excellence #focused