Intelligent

Famous quotes containing the word intelligent:

    The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
    —J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson)

    ... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods, and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.
    Toni Cade (b. 1939)