Intelligent

Famous quotes containing the word intelligent:

    I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants...
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 11:25.

    A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
    Philip Roth (b. 1933)