Intelligent Person Quotes

• Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Soul, Bent

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres

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  Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Intelligent, Errors, Data

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• There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Intelligent, Ideas

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• It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Intelligent, Intelligence, Statistics

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• Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Artist, Intelligent, Doctors

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• There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

  Tim Heidecker

  Intelligent, Choices, Wells

  "Q&A with Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. February 26, 2012.

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• The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Real, Intelligent, Simple

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

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• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Intelligent, Obsession, Release

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

  Jaron Lanier

  Intelligent, Musician, Culture

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• Intelligence is derived from two words - inter and legere - inter meaning 'between' and legere meaning 'to choose'. An intelligent person, therefore, is one who has learned 'to choose between'. He knows that good is better than evil, that confidence should supersede fear, that love is superior to hate, that gentleness is better than cruelty, forbearance than intolerance, compassion than arrogance, and that truth has more virtue than ignorance.

  J. Martin Klotsche

  Hate, Ignorance, Intelligent

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• An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Intelligent, People, Persons

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 30, 2012

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• A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Team, Intelligent, Persons

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2013

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• The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

  John Mayer

  Leadership, Intelligent, Understanding

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• Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  Robert Menzies

  Art, Intelligent, People

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• The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky...Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Children, Flower

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• People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the joys of heaven. But it is the same trick, the mind is again befooling you. This is not the way of the intelligent person, this is the way of the stupid.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Intelligent, People

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• An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

  e. e. cummings

  Fighting, Intelligent, Causes

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.276, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• 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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• An intelligent person is someone who listens with understanding.

  Michael Bradley

  Intelligent, Understanding, Persons

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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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• Most people think leadership is about being in charge. Most people think leadership is about having all the answers and being the most intelligent person or the most qualified person in the room. The irony is that it is the complete opposite. Leadership is about empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible. Leadership is about pointing in the direction, articulating a vision of the world that does not yet exist. Then asking help from others to insure that vision happens.

  Simon Sinek

  Intelligent, Thinking, Opposites

  "Why Leaders Should Always Eat Last – Simon Sinek Interview". Interview With Dan Schawbel, www.quickbase.com. February 19, 2014.

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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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• 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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