Quotes of: Intelligent-life Keyword

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

Cold Comfort Farm

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

The Chemickal Marriage

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

Cinema

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

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

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

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Krista Tippett

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

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

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