Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.

Sela Ward

I feel like only now in my life do I really get it -- do I feel that sense of calm. And I feel very grounded. I feel much more confident. I feel, you know, sexier, more intelligent, more to offer, more wisdom, more life experience to draw from.

Scott M. Gimple

You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.

Seth Shostak

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

Leymah Gbowee

My courage comes from my faith. I have come to one conclusion: All that I am, all that I aspire to be, all that I was before, is by the grace of God. There are so many women in Africa, and outside Africa, who are more intelligent than I am.

Marcus Aurelius

No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. For the intelligent power is no less diffused in all parts and pervades all things for him who is willing to draw it to him than the aërial power for him who is able to respire it.

Philip Green

I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

Peter Thiel

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Pierre Trudeau

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.

Pythagoras

Astonishing! Everything is intelligent!

Pitbull

My whole thing is I don't take from Castro being an intelligent man as long as he is doing the thing that needs to be done. But the thing is at the end of the day you're not bettering the island. You're only making it worse. So, for me it's just making sure that people have the right to speak their minds and have an opportunity in life to better their life.

Joshua Waitzkin

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

Joseph Epstein

We who are quotatious are never truly alone, but always hear the cheerful flow of remarks made by dead writers so much more intelligent than we.

Jacque Fresco

The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction.

Jacque Fresco

In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology. This does not call for scientists to manage society. What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.

Jacque Fresco

Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earth's resources are held as the common heritage of all of the earth's people can we truly say that there is intelligent life on Earth.

Milan Kundera

She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength

Milan Kundera

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Milan Kundera

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Marcel Proust

I do my intellectual work inside myself, and once I am with my fellow creatures it is more or less a matter of indifference to me whether or not they are intelligent as long as they are kind, sincere, etc.

Joseph Beuys

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

Jose Bergamin

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Martin Rees

I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity-beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee.

Laura Linney

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

James Howard Kunstler

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

James Richardson

Those who are too slow to be intelligent deserve our patience, those who are too quick, our pity.

Marc Maron

Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

Sheryl Sandberg

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and I think that's what we need to change.

Tallulah Bankhead

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Sy Montgomery

I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact and comfort. Pigs have a delightful sense of mischief; most of them seem to enjoy a good joke and appreciate music. And that is something you would certainly never suspect from your relationship with a pork chop.