Quotes of: Intelligent-life Keyword

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go & Moving on

But at the bottom of all the gloom, there is a sense that we are responsible for each other -- if not for each other's happiness. There is empathy, admiration, respect for the other's intelligence and honesty.

Fear of Fifty

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

The Hollow Kingdom

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.

Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle - and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.

Michael Merzenich

There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor...

Harvey Weinstein

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent differe...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in an intelligent way and then they are replicated, that's a beautiful thing. If you make things in a bad way and they are replicated, th...

Ross Lovegrove

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.

2010: Odyssey Two

It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.

After Dark

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

Another Faust

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Luna Sea’s music moves quickly but intelligibly, with a darkly frenetic, creative energy.

Jrock, Ink.: A Concise Report on 40 of the Biggest Rock Acts in Japan

Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.

Killosophy

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily - or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Size doesn't define your beauty and intelligence. Appearance doesn't measure the goodness of your heart and the hidden joy of your soul.

Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Scaramouche

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Small Town Demons

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

The social conquest of Earth

I am moved by the multitudes of your intelligence and sometimes, returning, I become the sea— in love with your speed, your heaviness and breath.

Meditations in an Emergency