Quotes of: Intelligent-life Keyword

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

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

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

Metamorphoses

She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien?

Night Embrace

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

The Songlines

The difference between a politician and a helmet full of feces, is the politician doesn’t need to wear protective headgear, because he’s got no intelligence to protect. 

Sleepwalking is restercise

Werewolves did not consider wolves one of their own; in fact, wolves were inferior. They were hunters, strong and ravenous like them, but they weren't as big or as intelligent.

Soul Sisters

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

Steal Across the Sky

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée

The Psychology of Intelligence

Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

Philosophic Nights in Paris,: Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques

There’s nothing special about politicians as people. Now as animals, they’d be extraordinary for their ability to be intelligent enough (barely) to be potty trained.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It’s not true I think all politicians are morons. Morons are far too intelligent to be politicians.

This Book Has No Title

Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.

Bob Newhart

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might think. Instead, they treat the reader as an intelligent friend, and describe the book as honestly, and as entertaining...

Craig Brown

To be able to make a good living in a challenging medium like soap operas is great. The best is that I get to act and am rewarded for it. And the people I work with are great. Funny, intelligent, hard working. They're all great to be around.

David Canary

When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.

Daniel Goleman

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by t...

George Saintsbury