I Quotes
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“Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.”
“Intelligent? He was more than intelligent. What you two had had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.”
“Intelligent? He was more than intelligent. What you two had had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good, and you were both lucky to have found each other, because you too are good.'
My father had never spoken of goodness this way before. It disarmed me.
'I think he was better than me, Papa.'
'I'm sure he'd say the same about you, which flatters the two of you.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Intelligent investment is more a matter of mental approach than it is of technique. A sound mental approach toward stock fluctuations is the touchstone of all successful investment under present-day conditions.”
“Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”
“Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.”
Source: The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition
“Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!”
“Intelligent living is not about applying your human intelligence, your cleverness, to your Life. It is about living intelligently, it is about choosing wisely on what, how, where, and why to invest your time and energy! You know you are going to die some day, so, do only what is worth it, what is worth your time and effort, and what gives you unadulterated, unparalleled, indescribable joy, a.k.a your Bliss!!!”
“Intelligent living simply means recognizing the perishable nature of Life and choosing not to postpone Happiness. It means focusing only on what matters most to you, on what you love doing. A simple beginning can be made by investing in your “Me Time”, in one hour on yourself daily – start with your health and with what you are deeply passionate about, what makes you come alive! When you do create that one hour for yourself, you will, magically, see how you gain control of the remaining 23 hours of the day!”
“Intelligent machines will continue that mechanization process, taking over the more menial aspects of cognition and elevating our mental lives towards creativity, curiosity, beauty, and joy. These are what truly makes us human.”
“Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.”
“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.”
“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)
“Intelligent men are dangerous.”
Source: Dragon Bones
“Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason.”
“Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.”
“Intelligent or not, we all make mistakes and perhaps the intelligent mistakes are the worst, because so much careful thought has gone into them.”
“Intelligent people are always eager and ready to learn. Fools always perish in their senselessness.”
“Intelligent people are always on the unpopular side of anything.”
“Intelligent people are cursed with many failures, letdowns and heartaches in the beginning and nothing but success the rest of days on earth.”
“Intelligent people can still get into some stupid-ass foolery”
Source: Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun
“Intelligent people create a persona or label for themself and work hard to become it every day, Successful people know what needs to be done and they do it every day to let the world decide what they are.”
“Intelligent people discuss ideas. Fools discuss how people should behave.”
“Intelligent people have a strong objection to things that mean nothing at all.”
Source: Sidelights on New London and Newer York and Other Essays
“Intelligent people have said again and again: "How easily men could make things much better than they are-if they only all tried togetherl". But people never do "all try together," because the principle of natural selection guarantees that self-prop systems will act mainly for their own survival and propagation in competition with other self-prop systems, and will not sacrifice competitive advantages for the achievement of philanthropic goals.”
Source: Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
“Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.”
“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.”
“Intelligent people learn not from their own mistakes but from the mistakes of others.”
“Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs.”
“Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.”
“Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.”
“Intelligent people question everything. Stupid people answer every question.”
“Intelligent people surround themselves with people who
challenge them, not yes people.”
“Intelligent people tend to care less about the opinions of others, they also enjoy being alone because of great sense of self.”
“Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.”
“Intelligent people while impulsive, worth less than one stone on the path”
Source: Zori 1ª Parte
“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.”
Source: Killosophy
“Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.”
Source: Speedboat
“Intelligent planning is essential for success in any undertaking designed to accumulate riches.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production.”
“Intelligent resistance keeps the true self alive”
Source: Reviving Ophelia
“Intelligent, sensitive friends who have a deep love for us are, besides one of the greatest riches that we can have, among the clearest manifestations of the divine in the world.”
“Intelligent silence is better than ignorant speech.”
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”
Source: 1Q84
“Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.”
Source: The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1920
“Intelligent, thoughtful discussion has become a lost art. Be someone who excites the minds & nourishes the souls along your path.”
“Intelligent transportation technology is key to better parking management. The adage that "You can't manage what you can't measure" fits parking perfectly.”
“Intelligent women always marry fools”
Source: The Red Lily
“Intelligent, heartfelt stories that tell a whole new set of truths about growing up American. Julie Orringer writes with virtuosity and depth about the fears, cruelties, and humiliations of childhood, but then does that rarest, and more difficult, thing: writes equally beautifully about the moments of victory and transcendence.”
“Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.”