Intelligent Man Quotes

• The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

  Ed Parker

  Success, Learning, Intelligent

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• No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

  Protagoras

  Confidence, Wisdom, Believe

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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  G. H. Hardy

  Knowledge, Intelligent, Men

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  The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Confidence, Wisdom

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

  Simone Weil

  Pride, Intelligent, Men

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Clever, Drinking, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W. B. Rönnfeldt (1898*). “Goethe's Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims”

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• 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

  John Abbott

  Wise, Education, Knowledge

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Thought Provoking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.

  Laozi

  Men, Intelligent, Doors

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• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Spring, Science

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.117, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Intelligent, Men, Laughing

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• A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Intelligent, Men, Feels

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• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

  Edward Thorndike

  Nature, Men, Intelligent

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.312, Routledge

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• I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

  Johannes Kepler

  Intelligent, Men, Appreciate

  "(K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication" by Gloria Pierre, (p. 147), 2005.

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• The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Success

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• Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Joseph Lewis, Robert Green Ingersoll (1957). “Ingersoll the Magnificent: To which Has Been Added a Special Arrangement of Some Gems from Ingersoll for Inspiration, Wisdom, and Courage”

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• Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

  Laozi

  Perseverance, Intelligent, Men

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• No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Intelligent, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

  Joseph Joubert

  Intelligent, Men, Age

  "Pensees and Letters of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, 1928.

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• No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

  Plato

  Plato, Intelligent, Men

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wisdom, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.93, Harvard University Press

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