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Intelligent Person Quotes

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

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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 olderintelligence and good manners.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

I've never really had any luck with women in my life. Well, at first I was fairly lucky. Then all of a sudden, they all thought they had to get married for some reason. And not to me. It's especially strange, because I almost always fell in love with the very smart girls. Even that didn't help matters. I don't see how any intelligent person could seriously want to get married.
- Max Frei

They glared at her the way any intelligent persons ought to glare when what they need is a smoke, a bite, a cup of coffee, a piece of ass, or a good fast-paced story, and all they're getting is philosophy.
- Tom Robbins

I really do admire you a bit. 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. - Colonel Korn
- Joseph Heller

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

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.
- Jen Knox

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
- Bryant H Mcgill

Clearly the Holy Spirit is not merely a quality to be found in the divine nature ... He is a holy intelligent person.
- John Owen

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

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

Dire poverty drives this mother back again to the factory (no intelligent person will say she goes willingly).
- Margaret Sanger

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

Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.
- Beatrice Sparks

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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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