Quotes About Intelligent Person
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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 —
“An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.”
— Bryant McGill
“An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects”
— E.E. Cummings
“What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!”
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature ... He is a holy intelligent person.”
— John Owen
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
“If some people think it shows a feminine side to be in the theater, I've never felt that. And I'll openly say that an intelligent person who is a sensitive person will be and should be in touch with their inner female.”
— Anthony Warlow
“Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.”
— Roger B. Taney
“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
— Marshall McLuhan
“Every Intelligent person was once a fool.”
— Michael Bassey Johnson
“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
“My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person. It hasn't got a goddam thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyway.”
— J.D. Salinger
“You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.”
— Keith Stanfield
“Minerva considered herself a reasonably intelligent person, but good heavens ... handsome men made her stupid. She grew so flustered around them, never knew where to look or what to say. The reply meant to be witty and clever would come out sounding bitter or lame. Sometimes a teasing remark from Lord Payne's quarter quelled her into dumb silence altogether. Only days later, while she was banging away at a cliff face with a rock hammer, would the perfect retort spring to mind.”
— Tessa Dare
“To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.”
— Alan McGlashan
“A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.”
— Peter Yarrow
“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
— Muhammad Ali
“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
“All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.”
— Thomas Szasz
— Walter Lippmann
“An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.”
— Herbert M. Shelton
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