Intelligent Discourse Quotes & Sayings

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent. — George Orwell

At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk. — John Hersey

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it. — Robert Mapplethorpe

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level. — Joel Silver

Gotta keep an eye on those terrorist polar bears, and make sure Santa's elves aren't planning a holy war. — Graham McNamee

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant McGill

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge. — Paulo Freire

The driver of the power of intelligent systems is
the knowledge the systems have about
their universe of discourse, Cyc has
not only the world's largest knowledge base,
but the best represented from a technical
point of view. — Edward Feigenbaum

God himself, finding he was in the midst of spirits and glory, because he was more intelligent, saw proper to institute laws whereby the rest could have a privilege to advance like himself. The relationship we have with God places us in a situation to advance in knowledge. He has power to institute laws to instruct the weaker intelligences, that they may be exalted with Himself, so that they might have one glory upon another, and all that knowledge, power, glory, and intelligence, which is requisite in order to save them in the world of spirits. (King Follett Discourse) — Joseph Smith Jr.

Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor