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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.

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

    Intelligent   May   Fool  
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Interview with Brian Lamb, Booknotes C-SPAN, November 13, 1994.
  • There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

  • I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

    Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.
  • 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.

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

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

  • Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

  • The only effective way to help well-intentioned, intelligent persons to do the best they can in raising children is to encourage and guide them always to do their own thinking in their attempts at understanding and dealing with child-rearing situations and problems, and not to rely blindly on the opinions of others.

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

    FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 30, 2012
  • A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

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

  • 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 (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.144, Faber & Faber
  • If you are a very intelligent person, you will see this: All the realities in the universe can be changed!

  • 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.

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

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

  • There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

  • 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.

  • Americans don't understand irony? I am an intelligent person living in the United States. My entire existence is ironic.

  • Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Life   Happiness   Happy  
    Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • There is nothing funny about a well-adjusted, intelligent person making the right choices.

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

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

  • The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

  • An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".

    Eye   Intelligent   Ears  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.38, Cooper Square Press
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