Quotes of: Human-intelligence Keyword

Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.

Dom Wars: Round Six

In a way she actually preferred Peter to other people because of this. He always acted out of intelligent self-interest.

Ender's Game

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Billy Budd, Sailor

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Comte de Lautreamont

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

Bibhu Mohapatra

And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

Eddie Redmayne

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

2312

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence. [ : Chapter 19]

3001: The Final Odyssey

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

All the Pretty Horses

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

How to Attract the Wombat

A politician is a person whose brain is as jiggly as Jell-O, only not as intelligent.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

The Just and the Unjust

Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.

Killosophy

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

Sweet Destiny

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

Martin Eden

Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence