Intelligent Man Quotes - Page 2

• Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Intelligent, Men, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.494, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Laozi

  Perseverance, Intelligent, Men

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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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• Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

  W. H. Auden

  Ambition, Intelligent, Men

  "The Good Order" by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2014.

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• No intelligent man has ever lost a fight to someone who said 'I'm gonna kick your ass'.

  Rory Miller

  Fighting, Men, Intelligent

  Rory Miller (2014). “Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence”, p.88, YMAA Publication Center, Inc.

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• Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Fate, Men

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• 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.

  Anthony the Great

  Christian, Intelligent, Men

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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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• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

  Bertrand Russell

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “Mortals and Others, Volume II: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.28, Routledge

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• Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

  Edward Bernays

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com

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  So unless we come together as a people and stop our foolish beefing among each other, sit down like intelligent men and women and settle the things that divide us from each other, then come together like a solid wall and we could make something happen.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Wall, Intelligent, Men

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

  B. F. Skinner

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

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• There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Determination, Mean, Responsibility

  "Human Action". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1949.

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• When I have a difficult subject before me - when I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools - I prefer to address myself to the one man, and to take no notice whatever of the condemnation of the multitude; I prefer to extricate that intelligent man from his embarrassment and show him the cause of his perplexity, so that he may attain perfection and be at peace.

  Maimonides

  Teaching, Men, Intelligent

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Men

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Constance Garnett, David Taffel (2005). “The Kingdom of God is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion But as a New Theory of Life”, p.45, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The difference between a simpleton and an intelligent man, according to the man who is convinced that he is of the latter category, is that the former wholeheartedly accepts all things that he sees and hears while the latter never admits anything except after a most searching scrutiny. He imagines his intelligence to be a sieve of closely woven mesh through which nothing but the finest can pass. 

  R.K. Narayan

  Intelligent, Men, Differences

  R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.87, Penguin Books India

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• 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.

  James Hervey

  Teacher, Intelligent, Men

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• The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Intelligent, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.92, Friederich Nietzsche

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• Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Intelligent, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.34, Advaita Ashrama

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• A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

  Adolf Hitler

  Intelligent, Men, Imagine

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• And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Character, Men

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• A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Mean, Intelligent

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• The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Intelligent, Men

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• Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.3148, Delphi Classics

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