Intelligent Man Quotes - Page 4

• . . . Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation.

  Isaac Newton

  Wise, Business, Philosophy

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• The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years

  Ednita Nazario

  Intelligent, Men, Air

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• They say he's an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages! I've got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Intelligent, Boys

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Intelligent men are dangerous.

  Patricia Briggs

  Intelligent, Men, Dangerous

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Bones”, p.118, Penguin

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• As long as the Almighty permitted intelligent men, created in his image and likeness, to fight in public and kill each other while the world looks on approvingly, it's not for me to deprive the chickens of the same privilege.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

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• To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

  Edward Abbey

  Stupid, Men, Intelligent

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

  Brendan Fraser

  Men, Intelligent, Attention

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

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• The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Intelligent, Men

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Hate, Intelligent

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• If you see an intelligent man who tells you where true treasures are to be found, who shows what is to be avoided, and administers reproofs,follow that wise man ; it will be better, not worse, for those who follow him.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Intelligent

  Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Religious, Atheist, Intelligent

  "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.

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• However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.174, Vintage

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• Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Horse, Sleep

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• The intelligent man is never bored.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intelligent, Men, Bored

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• The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Lying, Intelligent

  Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider diffusion, and a far greater effect, aided as it is by the element of surprise.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

  Storm Jameson

  Intelligent, Men, Careers

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• Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Intelligent, Water

  "Notes from Underground". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 19), 1918.

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• A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

  Peter Greenaway

  Intelligent, Men, Painting

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• 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.

  Pitbull

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

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• If being stupid is the only way for an intelligent man to be happy, then let us hope that unhappiness be his choice!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Men, Intelligent

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• I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Intelligent, Men, Blood

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• I think Judge Learned Hand was a cultured, intelligent man.

  William S. Burroughs

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hero, Intelligent, Men

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

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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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