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• We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Dirty, Intelligent

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• In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Country, Animal, Intelligent

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• A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

  Peter Yarrow

  Intelligent, Flip, Circumstances

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

  Jonathan Swift

  Heart, Intelligent, Should

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• If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Intelligent, Reality, Changed

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• I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Writing, Intelligent, Two

  Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.

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• The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens... within I don't know how many years, but in not too long a time, it's going to become basic common sense that you are not some alien being who confronts an external world that is not you, but that almost every intelligent person will have the feeling of being an activity of the entire universe.

  Alan Watts

  Intelligent, Years, Taught Us

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• Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

  Rumi

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Wool

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

  David Brooks

  School, Intelligent, Care

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved of their oppression not 100 or 10 years from now, but right now, you're going to find your talk is going to fall upon sympathetic ears.

  Malcolm X

  Fall, Teaching, Intelligent

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• An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Intelligent, May, Fool

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• The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

  Rajneesh

  Intelligent, Love And Respect, Insight

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact, reading it on my own and being my main company. I think Proust is the most intelligent person to ever have written a novel.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Reading, Hero, Intelligent

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• I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite education, then you will most likely wind up with an academic who is completely impervious to reality.

  Halton Arp

  Intelligent, Reality, Wind

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• One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

  Mario Batali

  Intelligent, Important, Lessons

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• Being on time to appointments and meetings is a phase of self-discipline and an evidence of self-respect. Punctuality is a courteous compliment the intelligent person pays to his associates.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Intelligent, Self, Discipline

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• It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atheist, Believe, Fighting

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• The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Country, Fun, Intelligent

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• You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

  Joseph Heller

  Taken, Character, Intelligent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Father, Intelligent

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

  Thomas Szasz

  Humor, Intelligent, America

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• 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.

  Lynsay Sands

  Stupid, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because it is not yours; it is borrowed. Intelligence is the growth of inner consciousness. It has nothing to do with knowledge, it has something to do with meditativeness. An intelligent person does not function out of his past experience; he functions in the present. He does not react, he responds. Hence he is always unpredictable; one can never be certain what he is going to do.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Intelligent, Past

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• To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

  Alan McGlashan

  Intelligent, Occupation, Fit

  Alan McGlashan (1988). “The Savage and Beautiful Country: The Secret Life of the Mind”, p.112, Daimon

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• The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.

  Abu Nu`aym

  Intelligent, Evil, Persons

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